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- As I was walking up the stair
I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. I wish, I wish he'd stay away. - Hughes Mearns
- Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence? There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work.
- Gallagher
- Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets.
- Unknown, Brigader Lethbridge-Stewart in "Dr. Who"
- If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
- Jewish Proverb
- I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up.
- Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
- Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)
- Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
- When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), An Ideal husband, 1893
- A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970), Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 10
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