Romantic Quotes - Love Quotes
Wishes
What folly can be ranker. Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines.
- By Edward Young , on Wishes
He calls his wish, it comes; he sends it back, And says he called another; that arrives, Meets the same welcome; yet he still calls on; Till one calls him, who varies not his call, But holds him fast, in chains of darkness bound, Till Nature dies, and judgment sets him free; A freedom far less welcome than this chain.
- By Edward Young , on Wishes
Wishing, of all employments is the worst.
- By Edward Young , on Wishes
Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!
- By Edward Young , on Wishes
What most we wish, with ease we fancy near.
- By Edward Young , on Wishes
Wishers and woulders be small householders.
- By Voltaire , on Wishes
We cannot wish for that we know not.
- By Voltaire , on Wishes
As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do.
- By Terence , on Wishes
I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood.
- By Jonathan Swift , on Wishes
Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.
- By William Shakespeare , on Wishes
