Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.
Joseph Addison
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
Mortimer Adler
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
Aesop
The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
Charles Baudelaire
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way... →
Winston Churchill
What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
Charles Caleb Colton
Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.
Christopher Columbus
I'm not that rebellious. There's a part of me that wishes I was that.
Miranda Cosgrove
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone.
Charles Darwin