Word info

wished

Meaning

of Wish

Source: Webster's dictionary

Examples

If you wished to be loved, love. Seneca

The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom. Livy

No wise man ever wished to be younger. Jonathan Swift

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau

If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are. Montesquieu

What I wished for happened not - What God willed happened to a dot. Persian Proverb

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