Desire Quote by Plautus Download Open image “Things unhoped for happen oftener than things we desire.” — Plautus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Happens Luck
We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Whatever worldly thing we may covet-zealously striving to obtain and then retain-never seems to bring an end to our desires. Covetousness, envy, jealousy, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to carry us… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It is better to desire the things we have than to have the things we desire. — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
Sadly, the things that we have set out as being worth striving for are not ultimately the things that satisfy human longings. And why… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
When you really want something to happen, the whole universe conspires so that your wish comes true. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The man who would be fully employed should procure a ship or a woman, for no two things produce more trouble. — Plautus Copy Share Image
No man has perpetual good fortune. [Lat., Nulli est homini perpetuum bonum.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you… — Plautus Copy Share Image
“Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent (How often the greatest talents are shrouded in obscurity)” — Plautus Copy Share Image
You little know what a ticklish thing it is to go to law. [Lat., Nescis tu quam meticulosa res sit ire ad judicem.] — Plautus Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I have never been in, nor have I had any strong particular desire to be in, what is termed a costume drama, but I… — Martin Freeman Copy Share Image
