Three Wishes Quotes

• The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

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• If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.

  Gladys Taber

  June, Giving, Wish

  Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”

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• If I could have three wishes, one would be to take an '88 and shove that barrel up Hitler's ass so that cocksucker can cry like the little god-damned girl he is. And hell, after that, I wouldn't need two more wishes.

  George S. Patton

  Girl, Two, Wish

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• Three wishes - no substitutes, exchanges or refunds

  Robin Williams

  Inspiration, Wish, Three

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• Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one

  Jeanette Winterson

  Wish, Three, Hundred

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.19, Random House

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• I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak, read, write, and understand any language ever written or spoken, just any language throughout the history of man. That would be one of my wishes from the genie, so I would have to put "multilingual" on the resume, should I ever find the genie.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Writing, Men, Wish

  "Maynard James Keenan on baling hay, genies, and ruining family photos". Interview with Jonathan K. Dick, www.avclub.com. February 11, 2015.

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• When I was growing up I had three wishes. I wanted to be a Lindbergh-type hero, learn Chinese, and become a member of The Algonquin Round Table.

  John F. Kennedy

  Growing Up, Hero, Chinese

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• The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn into girls and back again doesn't help much. The useful magic's never at hand. The three wishes and the genies in bottles, seven-league boots, invisible cloaks and all. They stay in the stories, while out here in the wide world we have to muddle through as best we can on our own.

  Charles de Lint

  Girl, Hands, League

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• I suppose that if we in intelligence were one day given three wishes, they would be to know everything, to be believed when we spoke, and in such a way to exercise an influence to the good in the matter of policy.

  Sherman Kent

  Exercise, Wish, One Day

  Sherman Kent, Center for the Study of Intelligence (U.S.). History Staff (1994). “Sherman Kent and the Board of National Estimates: collected essays”

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