If Wishes Were Sayings

#1. If wishes were fishes, aquariums would be much more terrifying.

Heidi Heilig

#2. If wishes were flying monkeys, we'd all be wearing tiny hats.

E.J. Stevens

#3. If wishes were horses, I'd need a very big stable.

Greg Curtis

#4. If wishes were grains of sand, the world would be a desert.

Palle Oswald

#5. Ah, well, my mother told me that if wishes were fishes, we would all be swimming in riches. Ok, tell me about these two facilities.

Craig Alanson

#6. And if wishes were pies, I'd weigh more than I do.
Sir Myles of Barony Olau

Tamora Pierce

#7. If wishes were horses, beggers would ride

Joanne Harris

#8. If wishes were horses, even beggars would ride. (Dark-Hunter)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#9. Daryl shrugged. If wishes were wardrobes, we'd be in Narnia.

Bryan Davis

#10. If wishes were held on the skin and swiped by raindrops, then emotions were freeloading off the cells that made up their space. The only offering these cells ever entertained was truth, painful and raw.

Amy Guth

#11. If wishes were wings, pigs would fly.

Robert Jordan

#12. If wishes were horses, what the heck would I need wishes for?

Elisabeth Wheatley

#13. If wishes were fishes, we'd all throw nets.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#14. If wishes were fishes, even beggars would eat

Lili St. Crow

#15. If wishes were horses mine would be glue -

Carrie Fisher

#16. If wishes were horses," she murmured, "beggars would ride.

Jennifer Haymore

#17. If wishes were horses, all beggars would ride.

Kristin Hannah

#18. If wishes were teardrops the world would flood.

Greg Keyes

#19. If wishes were horses, I'd have been run over in my childhood.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#20. If wishes were horses, paupers would ride. If the queen had balls, she'd be king. If I didn't have to WORK, I'd write stories all day.

Suki Michelle

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

Douglas Horton

#22. If wishes were horses,
we'd be wading in horse dung!

Manoj Vaz

#23. If wishes were fishes, the world would be an ocean

Jim Ross

#24. And if wishes were horses, I'd have been run over in childhood.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#25. If wishes were wings, sheep would fly.

Robert Jordan

#26. If wishes were prey, we'd eat like lions come leaf-bare. But we'd die of boredom! You know that's not what the life of the Clans is like. The warrior code guides us through the dark times, the cold and the hunger. And the good times seem all the sweeter for it. Have faith, Bluestar. We'll survive.

Erin Hunter

#27. If wishes were fishes, this whole place would really stink.

Karina Halle

#28. If wishes were stories, beggars would read ...

Randall Jarrell

#29. As my mom used to say,If wishes were horses, we'd be up to our eyeballs in shit.

Cat Adams

#30. Well, if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.

Robert Jordan

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

Dean Koontz

#32. Yeah, well, if wishes were horses I wouldn't need a ride home.

Robert J. Crane

#33. If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

Frank Herbert

#34. But wishes were empty thoughts, cast down a dark hole. They didn't come true unless you worked for them. I'd learned that about the world, if nothing more.

Ann Aguirre

#35. I am sure my fellow-scientists will agree with me if I say that whatever we were able to achieve in our later years had its origin in the experiences of our youth and in the hopes and wishes which were formed before and during our time as students.

Felix Bloch

#36. Every ignoramus imagines that all that exists, exists with a view to his individual sake; it is as if there were nothing that exists except him. And if something happens to him that is contrary to what he wishes, he makes the trenchant judgement that all that exists is an evil.

Maimonides

#37. If fishes were wishes the ocean would be all of our desire.

Gertrude Stein

#38. I wish I was dead, or that it were tomorrow night," groaned Phil.
"If you live long enough both wishes will come true," said Anne calmly.

L.M. Montgomery

#39. I sewed good wishes and thoughts into my garments, especially so if they were wedding or graduation dresses.

Anne Ellis

#40. Imagine if we were all magical leprechauns, and every wish ever made on a four-leaf clover obliged us to help others obtain their wishes. Now imagine if people simply lived like this were true.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#41. If you were given one wish, what would you wish for? To wish no more.

J.R. Rim

#42. The Kindly Ones would say it didn't matter. And maybe they were right. We still could have snatched happiness from our tragedy if we had made the right choices, the right wishes. If we had been kinder, braver, purer. If only we had been anything but what we were.

Rosamund Hodge

#43. We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Aesop

#44. You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever.

Jane Austen

#45. She wishes she had time to run around the block once or twice; maybe then she wouldn't feel as if she were about to burn up or shatter.

Alice Hoffman

#46. I suppose that if we in intelligence were one day given three wishes, they would be to know everything, to be believed when we spoke, and in such a way to exercise an influence to the good in the matter of policy.

Sherman Kent

#47. man can do anything if he wishes to enough, St. Peter believed. Desire is creation, is the magical element in that process. If there were an instrument by which to measure desire, one could foretell achievement. He

Willa Cather

#48. If I had a box just for wishes and dreams that had never come true, the box would be empty, except for the memory of how they were answered by you.

Jim Croce

#49. If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed.

Richard Whately

#50. If the wishes came true, they came true in terrible ways. Wishes were dangerous things. That was the idea you got from fairy tales.

Kate DiCamillo

#51. 125When God wishes to guide someone, He opens their breast to islam;b when He wishes to lead them astray, He closes and constricts their breast as if they were climbing up to the skies.

Anonymous

#52. Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.

Guy Lombardo

#53. He doesn't know if the words they are using actually mean the things they purport to mean or whether the words have taken on a new significance. They are talking about nothing, after all. And yet these words, these nothings, are all they have, and he wishes there were whole dictionaries of them.

Rachel Joyce

#54. One day many years later you will ask her if she wishes you were straight. She will hesitate, then say,"I love you just the way you are." You will never forget that.

Linda Villarosa

#55. Times are not what they were, and we cannot be, either. If you sit and wish for what you want, you may not see it this side of the grave.

Robert Jordan

#56. Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves.

Hermann Broch

#57. The whole thing could have been uncomfortable if all your wishes were to be drowned in to the sea or passed through a heart of a lion that shed not the innocent blood.

Auliq Ice

#58. Now if the wearing of fine and precious robes were not a fault, word of God would never have so carefully expressed this. For no one seeks costly garments except for vainglory, that he may seem more honorable than others; for no one wishes to be clothed with such, where he cannot be seen by others.

Pope Gregory I

#59. Let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, who knew everything, even before the beginning of time.

Saint Patrick