Top 1200 Well Wishes Quotes & Sayings

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

The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

But a man's best friend is the one who not only wishes him well but wishes it for his own sake (even though nobody will ever know it): and this condition is best fulfilled by his attitude towards himself - and similarly with all the other attributes that go to define a friend. For we have said before that all friendly feelings for others are extensions of a man's feelings for himself.

Your friends avoid you, brutishly transform'd They hardly know you, or if one remains To wish you well, he wishes you in heaven.

The WB never treated us well, so we didn't expect a lot of farewell wishes and flowers or cards.

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.

Whoever wishes to be delivered from the Fire and enter the Garden should die with faith in God and the Last Day and should treat the people as he wishes to be treated by them.

We don't read people's wishes. The wishes are suppose to be direct communication to the Universe. Your interception will weaken the power of the wish.

The typical Westerner wishes to be the cause of as many changes as possible in his environment; the typical Chinaman wishes to enjoy as much and as delicately as possible.

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.

If I could have three wishes, one would be to take an '88 and shove that barrel up Hitler's ass so that cocksucker can cry like the little god-damned girl he is. And hell, after that, I wouldn't need two more wishes.

we might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. he is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down.

I am honest; I try to be truthful. I like people and wish us well. We are not always deserving of our own best wishes.

Through practice he has accustomed himself to wish for nothing, and for a person with no wishes, everything goes just as he wishes, explains the Abbot Dorotheus. His will has coincided with God's will, and whatever he asks, he will receive.

Collectivism answers: The power of society is unlimited. Society may make any laws it wishes, and force them upon anyone in any manner it wishes.

In life, it's best not to take anything for free - unless it's from someone who wishes you well.

I would advise him who wishes to imitate well, to look closely into life and manners, and thereby to learn to express them with truth.

We have to keep our feet on ground, stay humble, and collect all praise, well-wishes, and prayers because these will help us in future.

There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!

What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.

If God wishes to be born as man and to unite mankind in the fellowship of the Holy Ghost, He suffers the terrible torment of having to bear the world in its reality. It is a crux; indeed, He Himself is His own cross. The world is God's suffering, and every individual human being who wishes even to approach his own wholeness knows very well that this means bearing his own cross. But the eternal promise for him who bears his own cross is the Paraclete.

Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well.

The bereaved had never any doubt about their dear ones' wishes and those wishes usually squared with their own inclinations.

I'm well aware of the people's wishes.

I am not unaware of the saying that more tears have been shed over wishes granted than wishes denied.

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.

Basically, the only thing we need is a hand that rests on our own, that wishes it well, that sometimes guides us.

Eddie and I are overwhelmed by the amount of lovely well wishes. We are blessed and.... I'm Mrs. Cibrian!

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

Naturalism aimed at giving the primitive wishes full play but failed because these wishes are too primitive, too infantile, too inconsistent with themselves to be satisfied even by the greatest license.

Artists and religionists are never far apart, they go to the sources of revelation for what they choose to experience and what they report is the degree of their experiences. Intellect wishes to arrange — intuition wishes to accept.

Overcoming fear is a critical factor for anyone who wishes to be really happy, or anyone who wishes to become enlightened

When the news broke that John McCain had been diagnosed with brain cancer, the outpouring of well wishes all hailed his toughness.

But nothing is more insidious than the evolution of wishes from mere fancies, and of wants from mere wishes.

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

What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

There is sorrow, but I hope one can see that it is sorrow for the people who died so young and so crazy, for nothing. I have respect for them, but also for their wishes, or for the power of their wishes. Because they tried to change the stupid things in the world.

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

Conflict may be defined as a situation of competition in which the parties are aware of the incompatibility of potential future positions, and in which each party wishes to occupy a position that is incompatible with the wishes of the other.

Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.

Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

Not everyone is a debtor who wishes to be; not everyone who wishes makes creditors.

I do think that all of the well wishes have contributed to the fact that my treatment and recovery are going well.

well i think its quite obvious that if you're going to rely on something to carry your wishes, you might as well know where exactly it has come from and where it intends on going

Unattainable wishes are often "pious." This seems to indicate that only profane wishes are fulfilled.

The lazy ox wishes for horse-trappings, and the steed wishes to plough. [Lat., Optat ephippia bos piger, optat arare caballus.]

You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so.

It so happens that after a certain stage, we have to give in to the wishes of the people rather than your own satisfaction. I look at it as my responsibility to satisfy the wishes of the people more than mine.

If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner

If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.

In modern society, where most people live in cities, and where both needs and wishes are absolved through the same remote agency - money - the distinction between wishes and needs has altogether vanished.

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.

The President wishes the Japanese to be very prudent about the introduction of opium, and if a treaty is made, he wishes that opium may be strictly prohibited.

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.

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

A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.

The French are always reticent to surrender to the wishes of their friends and always more than willing to surrender to the wishes of their enemies.

How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.

When the painter wishes to represent an event, he cannot place before us too great a number of personages; but he cannot employ too few when he wishes to portray an emotion.