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"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.

Every wish Is like a prayer--with God.

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

What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance.

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 , 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.

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.

You have wished it so, you have wished it so, George Dandin, you have wished it so.

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. - Walter Pope, The Old Man's Wish,

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.

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought.

Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.

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.

As you can not do what you wish, you should wish what you can do.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

Wishers and woulders be small householders.