Famous quotes containing the word wished:
“I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“I think sometimes, could I only have music on my own terms; could I live in a great city and know where I could go whenever I wished the ablution and inundation of musical waves,—that were a bath and a medicine.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I have wished a bird would fly away,
And not sing by my house all day....”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)