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If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | William Hazlitt |

If you already have something you wished for is there a need for something else you want?

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | A J Chilson |

There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good life is to live.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Alexandre Dumas |

I have always wished for a computer that would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish came true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Bjarne Stroustrup |

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Edith Hamilton |

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | John Guare |

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |