Edward Young Quotes

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

It is only the hope of what is claimed that begets and nurishes the wish.

Hope is merely another face of desire.

It had been more of a wish, actually, but it sounded better to call it a dream.

To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect

Dreams are nothing more than wishes and a wish is just a dream you wish to come true.

I'm the kind of person that when I really want something, I wish for it. I wish on shooting stars. I wish on lots of things.

Hope is the confusion of the desire for a thing with its probability.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

With how much ease believe we what we wish!

Many dreams is what we had and plenty wishes.

Men gladly believe what they wish. -Libenter homines id quod volunt credunt

Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.

We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

What one hopes for is always better than what one has.

Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.

expectation isn't the same as desire