{"topic":"wishes","quotes":[{"quote":"We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.","author":"Aesop"},{"quote":"Dreams are wishes your heart makes.","author":"American Proverb"},{"quote":"Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.","author":"Demosthenes"},{"quote":"The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.","author":"Demosthenes"},{"quote":"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.","author":"Washington Irving"},{"quote":"If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.","author":"William Shakespeare"},{"quote":"Thy wish was father... to that thought.","author":"William Shakespeare"},{"quote":"Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.","author":"William Shakespeare"},{"quote":"Wishers were ever fools.","author":"William Shakespeare"}]}