What was Aladdin’s first wish? Here are some proverbs and quotes about wishes.
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A bird in hand is worth two in the bush.What we already have is more valuable than what we hope to get.
A strawberry doesn't ripen according to the wishes of a monkey.
Even the wishes of a small ant reach heaven.
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.Socrates
How I wishRoger Waters
How I wish you were here
Source: Pink Floyd lyrics
I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free... Why am I so changed?Emily Brontë
Source: Wuthering Heights
I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.Emily Brontë
I wish that every day was Saturday and every month was October.Charmaine J. Forde
I wish they would only take me as I am.Vincent van Gogh
I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.Harlan Miller
If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.Richard Dawkins
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride.Things do not happen just because you wish them to happen.
If you wish good advice, consult an old man.Old people have more experience than younger ones.
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.Edgar Allan Poe
If you wish to know the divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand.Gautama Buddha
If you wish to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
If you wish to make an impact for one year, plant corn; if you wish to make an impact for a generation, plant a tree; if you wish to make an impact for an eternity, educate a child.Confucius
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.Anne Brontë
Source: Agnes Grey
May you live in interesting times.
So he sat down and wished in vain for a wash and a brush. He did not get either, nor tea nor toast nor bacon for his breakfast, only cold mutton and rabbit.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit: Or There and Back Again
The wish is father to the thought.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.Mignon McLaughlin
Those who wish to sing always find a song.
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.Charles Darwin
What do you mean? Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit – Chapter 1 – An unexpected party
Quoted: Gandalf
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.Thornton Wilder
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.Aristotle
