As quoted in Out of the Blue: Delight Comes Into Our Lives (1996) by Mark Victor Hansen, Barbara Nichols, and Patty Hansen, p. 85
“There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.”
Life and Human Nature.
Afterthoughts (1931)
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“There's a rule, I think. You get what you want in life, but not your second choice too.”
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Attributed to Watson in: William G. Dickerson (1995) In search of the ultimate practice. p. 19.
“Tough toenails, tiger. What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things.”
Source: Three Weeks With My Brother
“What you want, my lad, and what you're going to get are two very
different things.”
Source: Right Ho, Jeeves
Said about Absinthe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absinthe. Quoted in “Letters to the Sphinx from Oscar Wilde: With Reminiscences of the Author" by Ada Leverson (London: Duckworth, 1930)