#wish

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#bosom #brother #caution #counselor #elder

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#become #devout #humble #people #plenty

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#even #happiness #happy #impossible #indeed

The news of the open military help to Franco from Hitler and Mussolini, and the heroic resistance of the people of Madrid, Barcelona and the big cities fired a widespread wish to help the Republic and its people. ↗

— Bill Alexander

#big #big cities #cities #fired #franco

I wish to Christ I could make up a really great lie. Sometimes, after an interview, I say to myself, 'Man, you were so honest - can't you have some fun? Can't you do some really down and dirty lying?' But the puritan in me thinks that if I tell a lie, I'll be punished. ↗

— Willem Dafoe

#christ #could #dirty #down #fun

He who has no wish to be happier is the happiest of men. ↗

— William R. Alger

#happiest #men #who #wish

I wish they'd shut the gates, and let us play ball with no press and no fans. ↗

— Richie Allen

#fans #gates #i #i wish #let us

Similarly, anyone who wishes to understand the mind of the sacred writers must first cleanse his own life, and approach the saints by copying their deeds. ↗

— Athanasius

#approach #cleanse #copying #deeds #first

I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#goes #i #i love #i wish #less

I wish they would only take me as I am. ↗

— Vincent Van Gogh

#i #i am #i wish #me #only