A Quote by Douglas Horton

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.

Douglas Horton

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Douglas Horton
American - Priest
July 27, 1891 - August 21, 1968

If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

Frank Herbert

If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.

John Ray

If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Joanne Harris

If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. (Dark-Hunter)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

One of the saddest lines in the world is, 'Oh come now - be realistic.' The best parts of this world were not fashioned by those who were realistic. They were fashioned by those who dared to look hard at their wishes and gave them horses to ride.

Richard Nelson Bolles

If wishes were fishes, the world would be an ocean

Jim Ross

If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.

Gertrude Stein

And if wishes were horses, I’d have been run over in childhood.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

God wishes to be seen, wishes to be sought, wishes to be expected, and wishes to be trusted.

John Ortberg

My dad was a very quiet person, and unbelievably tough. But my grandmother gave me my first look at negative thinking to bring about positive results. When I was just a little guy, anytime I came to my grandmother and said I wish for this or that, Grandma would say, 'If wishes were horses, beggars would ride.'

Bobby Knight

some wishes come true. some wishes dont. sometimes you find out you were wishing for the completely wrong thing.

Kate Klise

Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.

Ernest Hemingway

He wishes he had never entered the funhouse. But he has. Then he wishes he were dead. But he's not. Therefore he will construct funhouses for others and be their secret operator -- though he would rather be among the lovers for whom funhouses are designed.

John Barth

When the men of antiquity realized their wishes, benefits were conferred by them on the people. If they did not realize their wishes, they cultivated their personal character, and became illustrious in the world. If poor, they attended to their own virtue in solitude; if advanced to dignity, they made the whole empire virtuous as well.

Mencius

Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes. Wishes get slimy, and their colors fade, and soon they are just mud, like all the rest of the mud, and not wishes at all, but regrets. The trouble is, not everyone can tell when they ought to launder their wishes. Even when one finds oneself in Fairyland and not at home at all, it is not always so easy to remember to catch the world in it's changing and change with it.

Catherynne M. Valente

I made a career goals list for 2017 and it's so funny. I have low self-esteem or something, so I put both wishes and goals. The goals were things I'm going to do anyway, because I have no choice because my job is to do stand-up comedy so I have to tour and I have to write stuff. The wishes were all things that could be goals. As in, I bet people who have achieved these things called them goals at one point. But I haven't looked at that piece of paper since.

Jen Kirkman

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