If wishes were horses then beggars would ride.

Beware what you set your heart upon. For it shall surely be yours.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.

A man of the world must seem to be what he wishes to be thought.

There is no beautifier of complexion or form of behavior like the wish to scatter joy, and not pain, around us.

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

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.