Wishing

Famous quotes containing the word wishing:

“Sunday—A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing—deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.”
—John Galsworthy (1867–1933)

“It is a happy art to know when one has said enough. I would leave my hearers wishing me to say more rather than give them cause to show, by their inattention, that I had said too much.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)