Desires Quote by Isabel Allende

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

There are some things that are as ancient as time, and knowing when a man desires you is one of those.

— Jude Deveraux

“...if there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices - that is, an explanation of what they depend…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has…

— Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires…

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.

— Oscar Wilde

The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with…

— Gore Vidal

The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.

— Henry David Thoreau

Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.

— Jack Ma

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable…

— Charles Dudley Warner

A wise man listens no matter how stupidly someone is

— Anonymous