Wishes

"Every wish Is like a prayer—with God."

"If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God."

"Genie: Uh, rule number one: I can't kill anybody. (He slices his head off with his finger.) So don't ask. Rule number two (He puts his head back on): I can't make anyone fall in love with anyone else. (His head turns into a giant pair of lips which kiss Aladdin.) You little punim, there. (Lies flat, then gets up and transforms into a green, slimy zombie with a Peter Lorre accent.) Rule number three: I can't bring people back from the dead. It's not a pretty picture, (He grabs Aladdin and shakes him) I don't like doing it! (He poofs back to normal.) Other than that, you got it."

"What you wish to be true is all that matters, regardless of the facts."

"Proud, proud is to hear it all yeah yeah Proud ah proud, proud is to watch us fall yeah yeah Make a wish, make a succotash wish You live the pompous life Throw kisses all the time Make wishes, don't break mine Make a wish, make a succotash wish You live the pompous life Throw kisses all the time Don't break mine, don't break mine Cold fire used to inspire all not now These are tired, maybe they'll find their niche Or resort to wish"

"But there is little gain to be had from wishes, the last attempt at a solution for the weak and the lazy."

"If your heart is in your dream No request is too extreme When you wish upon a star As dreamers do Fate is kind She brings to those who love The sweet fulfillment of their secret longing. Like a bolt out of the blue Fate steps in and sees you through When you wish upon a star Your dreams come true."

"If a man could half his wishes he would double his Troubles."

"Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it."

"If Wishes were Horses, Beggars would ride."

"Anakin Skywalker: Believe me, I wish that I could just wish away my feelings, but I can't."

"Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty traveler who suddenly finds water in the desert - he drinks to satiation."

"You pursue, I fly; you fly, I pursue; such is my humor. What you wish, Dondymus, I do not wish, what you do not wish, I do."

"One does not attain everything he wishes for. / Winds blow counter to what the ships desire."

"Henry: There ain't no such thing as magic, is there?"

"Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought: I stay too long by thee, I weary thee."

"Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek."

"Jeannie: Your wish is my command, Master."

"What most we wish, with ease we fancy near."

"Wishing, of all employments is the worst."

"He calls his wish, it comes; he sends it back, And says he called another; that arrives, Meets the same welcome; yet he still calls on; Till one calls him, who varies not his call, But holds him fast, in chains of darkness bound, Till Nature dies, and judgment sets him free; A freedom far less welcome than this chain."

"Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!"

"What folly can be ranker. Like our shadows, Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines."

""Man wants but little here below Nor wants that little long," 'Tis not with me exactly so; But 'tis so in the song. My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold, I still should long for more."

"O, that I were where I would be, Then would I be where I am not; For where I am I would not be, And where I would be I can not."

"Was man in der Jugend wünscht, hat man im Alter die Fülle."

"Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long."

"And the evil wish is most evil to the wisher."

"Little I ask; my wants are few; I only wish a hut of stone (A very plain brown stone will do), That I may call my own; And close at hand is such a one In yonder street that fronts the sun."

"With all thy sober charms possest, Whose wishes never learnt to stray."

"I wish I knew the good of wishing."

"Vous l'avez voulu, vous l'avez voulu, George Dandin, vous l'avez voulu."

"Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free, First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea."

"If I live to grow old, as I find I go down, Let this be my fate in a country town; May I have a warm house, with a stone at my gate, And a cleanly young girl to rub my bald pate. May I govern my passions with an absolute sway, Grow wiser and better as my strength wears away, Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay."

"I've often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year, A handsome house to lodge a friend, A river at my garden's end, A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land, set out to plant a wood."

"Quoniam id fieri quod vis non potest Id velis quod possis."

"On ne peut désirer ce qu'on ne connaît pas."

"Wishers and woulders be small householders."