It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren’t real. Things don’t work like that. There’s a price for everything.
—Maureen Johnson in Girl at Sea
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
—Lawrence Durrell
A goal without a plan is just a wish.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
—Aesop
Dreams are wishes your heart makes.
—American Proverb
Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.
—Demosthenes
The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.
—Demosthenes
Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.
—Washington Irving
If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.
—William Shakespeare
Thy wish was father… to that thought.
—William Shakespeare
Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.
—William Shakespeare
Wishers were ever fools.
—William Shakespeare