Wished

Famous quotes containing the word wished:

“I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.”
—Epicurus (341–270 B.C.)

“Take it all around, I was feeling ruther comfortable, on accounts of taking all this trouble for that gang, for not many would a done it. I wished the widow knowed about it. I judged she would be proud of me for helping these rapscallions, because rapscallions and dead beats is the kind the widow and good people takes the most interest in.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“Parents sometimes make not those allowances for youth, which, when young, they wished to be made for themselves.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)