Source: Squire
William Henry Harrison (1773–1841) American general and politician, 9th President of the United States (in office in 1841)
Final words. Quoted in Jebediah Whitman, "A Memorial to Our Dear Departed President (New Ark, DE: Printed by the Author, 1841).
James Jeffrey Roche (1847–1908) American journalist
Contentment, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
Letter to Robert Morris https://web.archive.org/web/20060503040039/http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/project/volumes/confederation/essay4.html (12 April 1786) <br class="br">1780s
“No, sir. Go to hell sir. It's the best I can do for you sir.”
Jack London book Call of the Wild
Source: The Call of the Wild
“I wonder what Piglet is doing," thought Pooh.
"I wish I were there to be doing it, too.”
A.A. Milne book Winnie-the-Pooh
Source: Winnie-the-Pooh
Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) American politician, 30th president of the United States (in office from 1923 to 1929)
From an address before the Women’s National Committee for Law Enforcement, as quoted in The New England historical and genealogical register, Volume 87, H. F. Waters, New England Historic & Genealogical Society (1933), p. 100.
1930s
Context: I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do on its enforcement. It is a maxim of our institutions, that the government does not make the people, but the people make the government.
“I wish you way more than luck.”
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist
Source: This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
“I wish, sir, you would practice this without me. I can't stay dying here all night.”
Richard Brinsley Sheridan The Critic
Act III, sc. i.
The Critic (1779)
