Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903) British politician
Letter to Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (9 March 1877), as quoted in G. Cecil, The Life of Robert, Marquis of Salisbury. Volume II, p. 130
1870s
“If you wish to avoid foreign collision, you had better abandon the ocean.”
Speech on the Increase of the Navy, House of Representatives (22 January 1812).
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Alain de Botton book The Consolations of Philosophy
Source: The Consolations of Philosophy (2000), Chapter III, Consolation For Frustration, p. 80.
Context: Though the terrain of frustration may be vast — from a stubbed toe to an untimely death — at the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.
“Never wish life were easier, wish that you were better.”
Jim Rohn (1930–2009) American motivational speaker
“But whatever you wish to keep, You better grab it fast.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston (1784–1865) British politician
John Bright to Lord Rosebery in 1886, after asking him whether he had read about Palmerston's policies at the Foreign Office. (The Fifth Earl of Rosbery's journal, 17 March 1886)
Wolfram von Eschenbach book Parzival
Ôwî wan wær dîn schœne mîn!
dir hete got den wunsch gegebn,
ob du mit witzen soldest lebn.
Bk. 3, st. 124, line 18; p. 74.
Parzival
