Home / Topics / Wish Quotes

Wish Quotes

Browse 9106 quotes about Wish.

Wish Quotes

“My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.”

Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

“If for the sake of a crowded audience you do wish to hold a lecture, your ambition is no laudable one, and at least avoid all citations from the poets, for to quote them argues feeble industry.”

Ifs Wish Audience Poet Industry Ambition Sake Arguing Lectures Crowded Citations

Book:Hippocrates

Source: Hippocrates

“During the course of our life we now and then enjoy some pleasures so inviting, and have some encounters of so tender a nature, that though they are forbidden, it is but natural to wish that they were at least allowable. Nothing can be more delightful, except it be to abandon them for virtue's sake.”

Courses Wish Enjoy Natural Pleasure Virtue Our Lives Sake Encounters Abandon Now And Then Delightful Forbidden Inviting

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“The intellectual process must be stirred. A feeling for knowledge for its own sake must be engendered. Learning will then be an exciting adventure which few can escape, nor will many wish to. And it will bring the spirit to a great awakening which can likely last a lifetime.”

Feelings Lasts Spirit Wish Process Education Adventure Intellectual Exciting Lifetime Sake Awakening Exciting Adventures

Author:Julius Sumner Miller

“Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued and which not. But without funding basic research, without supporting the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake, our options become dangerously limited.”

Courses Wish Technology Exercise Research Sake Application Prudence Pursued Funding Acquisition Basic Research

Book:Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

Source: Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence

“You ardently strive for freedom, and I do wish you were free--but, rather than for your sake, so that government won't be.”

Government Wish Freedom Strive Sake Wish You

Author:Franz Grillparzer

“When I reflect upon what I have seen, what I have heard, what I have done, I can hardly persuade myself that all that frivolous hurry and bustle and pleasure of the world had any reality; and I look on what has passed as one of those wild dreams which opium occasions, and I by no means wish to repeat the nauseous dose for the sake of the fugitive illusion.”

World Life Looks Mean I Can Done Dream Reality Wish Pleasure Heard Illusion Sake Occasions Repeats Dose Frivolous Opium Fugitive Bustle Wild Dreams

Author:Lord Chesterfield

“There is who loves you quietly, and respects you quietly, and wishes you privately, and walks away when he sees you busy with someone other than him, and his ego restrains him from getting near you, and contents himself with the love for the sake of love”

Wish Walks Love You Ego Busy Sake Wish You

Author:Nizar Qabbani