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When man can "wish away worrying," every desire will be instantly fulfilled. — Florence Scovel Shinn

How can you wish on a turkey wishbone with a man who is capable of correcting a love letter? — Bel Kaufman

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate. — Jose Ferrer

I swallowed. Be strong, Valentina. The wish of a dead man is sacred. Don't break your promise. — Cora Reilly

What a man wishes, he will believe. — Demosthenes

To wish a healthy man to die is the wish from a mind of sickness. To wish an ailing man to die is the wish of the ambitious. — Roman Payne

I wish I were as good a man as my son is. — Mario Cuomo

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning. — Samuel Johnson

A man had rather have a hundred lies told of him than one truth which he does not wish should be told. — Samuel Johnson

You wish for what's called wooing. This customary game, where the man shows the woman that resistance is impractical, strikes me as quite pointless. — Tara West

The mark of a man is his willingness to do things that he must do but doesn't wish to. — Robert J. Crane

You've always had me ... and my heart. My soul. Everything. I wish it hadn't taken this long for me to man up. — J.R. Ward

As I was going up the stair
I met a man who wan't there
He wasn't there again today
Oh I wish he'd go away! — William Hughes Mearns

The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part in it. — Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

He is a truly virtuous man who wishes always to be open to the observation of honest men. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence. — Man Ray

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity. — Peter O'Toole

I wish my parents could have raised every man out there. — Marie Osmond

God's work is freedom. Freedom is dear to his heart. He wishes to make man's will free, and at the same time wishes it to be pure, majestic, and holy. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin

If you wish to discover a man's true feelings, it is always best to provoke him. — Winston Graham

If you wish, I shall grow irreproachably tender: not a man, but a cloud in trousers! — Vladimir Mayakovsky

If you wish to win a man over to your ideas, first make him your friend. — Abraham Lincoln

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic. — Elbert Hubbard

You know what I wish for?" she said through a tight throat. "What I
really need? A man who loves me enough to stay. — Karina Bliss

The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public. — Robert Green Ingersoll

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't. — Mignon McLaughlin

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. — Thomas Carlyle

He is a gay man, my dear, to say no more; and such are the companions we wish when we join a party avowedly formed for pleasure. — Hannah Webster Foster

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. - JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE — Doreen Virtue

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. — Alexander Pope

If you told me tomorrow that I couldn't act anymore, it wouldn't bother me. I have only one wish: to meet the man of my life. — Juliette Binoche

I am not a wealthy woman. I wish to hell I was, but I never had a wealthy man. — Lauren Bacall

What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die. — Steve Toltz

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hang up. I feel like a serious man in the emotional climax of a film that ends with a teary defeat. I wish this was in a film. — Ben Brooks

Oh, man, oh how I wish I didn't smoke or drink to reason with my head ... — Dave Matthews

I am always for the man who wishes to work. — Abraham Lincoln

I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish to fight? — Patrick Rothfuss

Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles ... — Edward Abbey

More like Cross blew your circuits during one of his sexathons. Still can't get over that man's stamina. Wish he'd swing my way and wear me out. — Sylvia Day

A newspaper man wrote an article that I had 300 million dollars, well, I wish I had a million dollars — Meyer Lansky

Lews Therin hummed even harder, making Rand wish the man had a face so he could hit him. — Robert Jordan

Smartass Disciple: Master, why do some people so stubborn and unruly ?
Master of Stupidity: Only when you want them do according to your wish. — Toba Beta

No wise man will wish to bring more long words into the world. But — G.K. Chesterton

For a man, no more beautiful wish has ever found yet than wishing him a life full of kindness! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I'm not the Ambassador," said Crosby. "I wish I was, but I'm just a plain, ordinary business man. — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Nothing is easier than self-deceit.
For what every man wishes,
that he also believes to be true. — Demosthenes

The man who leaves a woman best pleased with herself is the one whom she will soonest wish to see. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, and for one, I wish to see it become universal. — Julius Sterling Morton

The Brigadier had no wish to shake hands with the improbable young man in the ridiculous frock-coat. — Peter Grimwade

I photograph what I do not wish to paint, and I paint what I do not wish to photograph — Man Ray

Was it the Twilight of Magic? Perhaps. But only today's. Magic could never die while the sun had the power to rise again and man had the wish to seek. — Hugh Lofting

If you wish to make Pythocles an old man, filling his life to the full, do not add to his years, but subtract from his desires. — Seneca.

The most futile cry of man is his impossible wish to be understood — Arun Joshi

Take my advice, don't appreciate any man too highly. In the book of every man's life there is a page which he would wish to keep turned down. — Richard Marsh

Hell I wish all guys could just cry and not have it be such a big stupid deal. Shed a tear. Be a man. Whatever. — Lisa McMann

I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something. — Charles Bukowski

I will break obstacles to happiness, to goodness - yes, goodness. I wish to be a better man than I have been, than I am — Charlotte Bronte

Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it. — Aristotle.

They say nothing is my fault, and I wish they wouldn't say that. How can a man be forgiven if nothing is his fault? — Miriam Toews

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. — Marcus Aurelius

Nature ordains that a man should wish the good of every man, whoever he may be, for this very reason that he is a man. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I saw a man this morning Who did not wish to die Patrick Shaw-Stewart — Hugh Laurie

Yesterday upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today, I wish to hell he'd go away. — Gregory Maguire

Knowledge both enlarges and multiplies our Desires, and the fewer things a Man wishes for, the more easily his Necessities may be supply'd. — Bernard De Mandeville

Perhaps it is the nature of man not to wish to know too much about his own nature. — Roger Ebert

A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere. — Edward R. Murrow

I wish the dryer were running, because man, I could use a good ... tumble dry.-Eve Rosser — Rachel Caine

Man is bestowed with the power to build everything he can imagine. — Bibhu Datta Rout

Every man has a lurking wish to appear considerable in his native place. — Samuel Johnson

Anybody can be a believer; but anybody cannot be a good man! First, be good; then, in addition to this, be whatever you wish! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it - why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise? — Ella Maillart

If you wish to make a man your enemy, tell him simply, 'You are wrong.' This method works every time. — Henry C. Link

Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal. — Charlton Laird

I haven't figured out why people like what they like. I don't know. I wish I did. I could sell that to everybody, man, and be a millionaire. — Jason Aldean

A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human. — Charles Wagner

There are good men everywhere. I only wish they had louder voices. — Louis L'Amour

Man is more likely to believe an opinion that he wanted to hear ... than a fact that he wishes was an opinion. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A man cannot have the energy to produce good art without having the energy to wish to pass beyond it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Souls do not wish to be bullied, but gently brought back; such is the nature of man. — Saint Francis De Sales

The man who has lost his purse will go wherever you wish.
[Lat., Ibit eo quo vis qui zonam perdidit.] — Horace

This night he was a king before he was a man. At this time, this troubled me. Later, I would have cause to wish it were always so. — Geraldine Brooks

Every man is valued in this world as he shows by his conduct that he wishes to be valued. — Jean De La Bruyere

Let the man who does not wish to be idle, fall in love. — Ovid

If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him. — Anton Chekhov

We do not wish to say only that a man is responsible for his own individuality, but that he is responsible for that of all men. — Jean-Paul Sartre

(On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it. — Bill Gates

Either way, I have no wish to disturb a man sleeping in a gutter; I assume until proved otherwise that he belongs there. — Robert A. Heinlein

Maybe women sometimes wish that a man would come along and buy them. — Allison Anders

When you wish to obtain some concession from a man's self-love, you must avoid even the appearance of wishing to wound it." "I — Alexandre Dumas

Man does not by nature wish to earn more and more money. — Max Weber

but on Barsoom no man lies; if he does not wish to speak the truth he is silent. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

The man cocked his gun and Patty had time for one last thought: I wish, I wish, I wish I could take this back. — Gillian Flynn

Only one wish I have, and that is to die a happy man. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

The child is father of the man:
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety. — William Wordsworth

No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end. — J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Vanity does not refer to the opinion a man entertains of himself, but to that which he wishes others to entertain of him. — William Hazlitt