Wish Quote by Voltaire Download Open image “We cannot wish for that we know not.” — Voltaire ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Wish
If things do not turn out as we wish, we should wish for them as they turn out. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Fanaticism, to which men are so much inclined, has always served not only to render them more brutalized but more wicked. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror." "Christianity is the most ridiculous, the most absurd and bloody religion… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them — Voltaire Copy Share Image
When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not? — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Madness is to think of too many things in succession too fast, or of one thing too exclusively. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Now I am in the place I call this wide wide Heaven because it includes all my simplest desires but also the most humble… — Alice Sebold Copy Share Image
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I am one of the people who just doesn't enjoy watching myself. I wish I could! I've seen 'Deadpool' three times; the third time,… — Brianna Hildebrand Copy Share Image
This cold weather has set all the young Folks to providing Bedfellows. I have signed two or three Licences every Day [as a Fairfax… — George Mason Copy Share Image
We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I have read that I was a Bill Bradley type. I wish I was a Bradley. He was one of the best. He helped… — Chris Mullin Copy Share Image
The people of Orissa had unmatched love and respect for Bijubabu. There is no way that you can wish away his legacy. — Naveen Patnaik Copy Share Image
