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Wishes: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

"Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long," 'Tis not with me exactly so; But 'tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more.— JOHN QUINCY ADAMS — The Wants of

Man. The quoted lines from— GOLDSMITH — Hermit. St. 8.

Every wish Is like a prayer-with God.— E. B. BROWNING — Aurora Leigh. Bk. II.

Little I ask; my wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone (A very plain brown stone will do), That I may call my own; And close at hand is such a one In yonder street that fronts the sun.— O. W. HOLMES — Contentment.

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea.— MOORE — Remember Thee.

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought: I stay too long by thee, I weary thee.— Shakespeare — Henry IV. Pt. II. Act IV. Sc. 5. L. 93.

Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.— Shakespeare — Love's Labour's Lost. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 237.

On ne peut désirer ce qu'on ne connaît pas. We cannot wish for that we know not.— VOLTAIRE — Zaïre. I. 1.