Common Quote by Sammy Davis, Jr

Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.

— Amy Tan

Wishing of all strategies, is the worst.

— Andrew Young

“I wish" assumes that I know what is the opposite of my present experience.”

— Hugh Prather

“Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content.  For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret." - from "Dimpellumpzki”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“Wishing just brought earned disappointment.”

— John Steinbeck

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're…

— Alice Hoffman

Every fear hides a wish.

— David Mamet

Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It is high time that I learn to be more careful about hope, a reckless emotion for travellers. The sensible approach would be to…

— Martha Gellhorn

Wishes are a good way of leaving reality behind

— Anonymous

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

— Graham Swift

“Be careful what you pointedly don’t wish for,”

— Heather Cocks