Best may & wish Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them.”

Wells May Wish Interest Bears Politician Relation Schooled Vested Interests

Author:Jeremy Paxman

“I'm just not a naturally cheery person. I'm naturally moody. I know that from people who spend a lot of time with me. People who spend a lot of time with me may not wish to spend a lot more time with me.”

People Knows May Persons Wish More Time Moody

Author:Ben Stiller

“If yon wish to be like the gods on earth, to be free in the realms of the dead, pluck not the fruit from the garden! In appearance it may glisten to the eye; but the perishable pleasure of possession quickly avenges the curse of curiosity.”

Ifs May Eye Earth Wish Pleasure Garden Fruit Curiosity Possession Appearance Temptation Curse Realms Pluck Glisten

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Life is serious all the time, but living cannot be. You may have all the solemnity you wish in your neckties, but in anything important (such as sex, death, and religion), you must have mirth or you will have madness.”

May Important Life Is Wish Sex Serious Madness Be You Mirth Solemnity Neckties

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.”

Ifs Men May Feelings Wish Oppression Unbearable Hashish

Book:The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche

“Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless.”

Years Kind May Heaven Wish Wealth Industry Reader Thee Bless Health Wealth

Book:Poor Richard's almanac for 1850-52

Source: Poor Richard's almanac for 1850-52

“Wherever I go I need a period of incubation so that I may learn the essence of nature, which never wishes to be understood or yield herself.”

Needs May Wish Nature Periods Understood Essence Yield Incubation

Author:Paul Gauguin

“It must be an independent House, having a free action of its own, for it is only valuable as being a regulating body, calmly considering the legislation initiated by the popular branch, and preventing any hasty or ill considered legislation which may come from that body, but it will never set itself in opposition against the deliberate and understood wishes of the people.”

People May Body Action House Wish Understood Independent Ill Valuable Branches Opposition Considering Legislation Deliberate Preventing Hasty

Author:John A. Macdonald

“Everything in nature is formed upon the sphere, the cone and the cylinder. One must learn to paint these simple figures and then one can do all that he may wish.”

May Wish Can Do Simple Figures Paint Spheres Cones Cylinders

Author:Paul Cezanne

“I have no wish to be remembered as a painter, for I never was a painter; my idea of that profession was perhaps too exalted; I may say, is too exalted. I leave it to others more worthy to fill the niches of art.”

May Art Ideas Wish Worthy Profession Painter Remembered Niche Exalted

Author:Samuel Morse

“May my legend prosper and thrive. I wish it a long and happy life.”

May Long Wish Thrive Legends Happy Life

Author:Coco Chanel

“There are courageous and honest men enough in both sections to fight. There is no question of courage involved. The people of both sections of this Union have illustrated their courage on too many battlefields to be questioned. They have shown their fighting qualities shoulder to shoulder whenever their country has called upon them; but that they may never come in contact with each other in fratricidal war, should be the ardent wish of every true man and honest patriot.”

People Men Should May War Country Enough Fighting Wish Quality Honest Involved Unions Shoulders Contact Courageous Patriot Sections Battlefields Honest Man Ardent Very True True Man

Author:Robert Toombs

“Do behold the king in his glory, King Sequoia. Behold! Behold! seems all I can say.... Well may I fast, not from bread but from business, bookmaking, duty doing & other trifles.... I’m in the woods woods woods, & they are in mee-ee-ee.... I wish I were wilder & so bless Sequoia I will be.”

Wells May I Can Seems Wish Duty Kings Glory Woods Bread Bless Trifles Wilder Redwoods

Author:John Muir

“We live in this irreparably broken world, and I don't wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not that we refuse to relinquish hope as a species. The amazing thing is that we're right to hold on to hope. The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy. ... Obviously not all stories end happily. We don't always have good fortune, but hope gives us, as a species and as individuals, what we otherwise wouldn't have: A chance.”

World Giving May Ends Stories Reality Individual Wish Chance Crazy Broken Fortune Species Refuse Deny Good Fortune Amazing Things Broken World

Author:John Green

“Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.”

May Left Wish Sea Land Mines Comfort Chains Thee Vain Ties Land And Sea

Author:William Wordsworth

“Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality.”

Source: The nemesis of faith: or, The history of Markham Sutherland

“In cities men cannot be prevented from concerting together, and from awakening a mutual excitement which prompts sudden and passionate resolutions. Cities may be looked upon as large assemblies, of which all the inhabitants are members; their populace exercises a prodigious influence upon the magistrates, and frequently executes its own wishes without their intervention.”

Men May Together Wish Cities Influence Exercise Members Passionate Awakening Excitement Mutual Resolution Intervention Assembly Prompts Magistrates Prodigious

Book:Democracy in America

Source: Democracy in America

“I venture on assuring you that I regard the design formed by you and your friends with sincere interest, and in particular wish well to all the efforts you may make on behalf of individual freedom and independence as opposed to what is termed Collectivism.”

Wells May Individual Wish Interest Effort Design Particular Regard Independence Sincere Venture Behalf Collectivism Individual Freedom

Author:William E. Gladstone

“I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational and manly than for men who occupy the most honorable and gainful departments and are rising in reputation and wealth, publicly to declare their unsatisfactoriness by becoming fervent Advocates in the cause of Christ, & I wish you may give in your Evidence in this way. Such instances have seldom occurred, therefore they would be more striking and would be instead of a "Cloud of Witnesses.”

Source: The Papers of James Madison

“Watch well each separate citizen, Lest having in his heart of hearts A secret spear, one still may come Saluting you with cheerful face, And utter with a double tongue The feigned good wishes of his wary mind.”

Mind Wells Heart May Stills Faces Wish Secret Watches Citizens Tongue Cheerful Spears Good Wishes

Author:Solon

“Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night.”

Needs May Light Earth Lying Night Wish Arms Ill Charm Buried Limbs Good Night Bewitched

Author:Edmund Waller

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