"My great wish is to go on in a strict but silent performance of my duty; to avoid attracting notice, and to keep my name out of the newspapers."
Read quote
3 likes
Wish quotes
Wish
4.8K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Wish
Browse quotes that often appear alongside wish — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Wish quotes (page 64 of 238)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Many of the opposition [to the new Federal Constitution] wish to take from Congress the power of internal taxation. Calculation has convinced me that this would be very mischievous."
Read quote
3 likes
"If science produces no better fruits than tyranny... I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our neighbouring savages are."
Read quote
3 likes
"Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be."
Read quote
3 likes
"We wish the happiness and prosperity of every nation."
Read quote
3 likes
"Democrats consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them, therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent."
Read quote
3 likes
"Truth can stand by itself...If there be but one right [religion], and [Christianity] that one, we should wish to see the nine hundred and ninety-nine wandering sects gathered into the fold of truth."
Read quote
3 likes
"Our wish is that...[there be] maintained that state of property, equal or unequal, which results to every man from his own industry or that of his fathers."
Read quote
3 likes
"That’s the really annoying thing about love. I probably would be happier if I didn’t know it, but once you do know it, once you feel those things for someone, you can’t make yourself really wish it away. It’s like wishing away . . . your soul. - Jenny"
Read quote
3 likes
"I think whenever you lose somebody close to you, there's always a part of you that wishes you could have done something differently."
Read quote
3 likes
"Many dreams is what we had and plenty wishes."
Read quote
3 likes
"How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it."
Read quote
3 likes
"I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would have helped me with some of the things that happened."
Read quote
3 likes
"Some lack the fickleness to live as they wish and just live as they have begun."
Read quote
3 likes
"You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself."
Read quote
3 likes
"Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever."
Read quote
3 likes
"Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor."
Read quote
3 likes
"The most happy ought to wish for death."
Read quote
3 likes
"It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary."
Read quote
3 likes
"It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually met and frustrated by difficult times and situations. It is in no man's power to have whatever he wants; but he has it in his power not to wish for what he hasn't got, and cheerfully make the most of the things that do come his way."
Read quote
3 likes