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Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources...

Wishes expand in direct proportion to the resources available for the gratification.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Quote by John Adams about state, things

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

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

Quote by Joseph Addison about wish, people

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Quote by Aesop about wish

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one...

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about change

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes...

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes for my sake.

Quote by Aristotel about friendship, man

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as...

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

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about happiness, impossible, man

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, ...

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about purpose, wealth, mother, good, good luck, man

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

Quote by Winston Churchill about prosperity, human imperfections

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about power

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about wife, happiness, time, man

Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about difficulties, pleasure, life

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and...

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes.

Quote by Harvey Pekar about events, things, people

We have reiterated on many occasions that China wishes to establish and develop long-term, good-neighbourly and friendly relations with all countries in south Asia.

Quote by Li Peng about country, good, good luck

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able...

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

Quote by Charles Baudelaire about poetry, poets, being

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

Quote by Stephen Harold Spender about poetry, dream, children, mind

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Quote by Washington Irving about mind

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

Quote by Willa Cather about love

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