“I wish you all sorts of prosperity with a little more taste.”

“When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness… all the good things.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.”

Philip Roth book The Dying Animal

“I wish sometimes you had a few bad motives, you might understand a little more about human beings.”

Graham Greene book The Quiet American

“Roger: It’s a little more freedom, sort of, but it’s more work, too, to keep up with all the little things. It’s kinda worth it, I guess; nobody really buys CDs so it really doesn’t matter.”

Roger Manganelli (1973) American musician

“This is an excellent martini—sort of tastes like it isn’t there at all, just a cold cloud.”

Herman Wouk (1915–2019) Pulitzer Prize-winning American author whose novels include The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War and War and …

“I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade of each becomes more valuable to the other.”

William Howard Taft (1857–1930) American politician, 27th President of the United States (in office from 1909 to 1913)

“I wish to establish some sort of system not guided by chance but by some sort of definite and exact principle.”

Dmitri Mendeleev (1834–1907) Russian chemist and inventor

“I wish you love - and happiness
I guess I wish - you all the best
I wish you don't - do like I do
And never fall in love with someone like you
Cause if you fell - just like I did
You'd probably walk around the block like a little kid
But kids don't know - they can only guess...”

John Prine (1946–2020) American country singer/songwriter

“I love all waste
And solitary places; where we taste
The pleasure of believing what we see
Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Romantic poet