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• Heat, ma'am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 267...
• I only wish that I were what I was when I wished that I would be what I am now.
• Homer: Eh, what do you mean by `suggested donation'?
  Clerk: Pay any amount you wish, sir. Homer: And uh, what if I wish to pay ....
• I wish I was a sex-starved manicurist found dead in the Bronx!! -- Zippy the Pinhead
• I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as king as I would wish to do without the help of the woman I love.
  -- Edward, Duke of Windso...
• Am I dying or is this my birthday?" (When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside.
  ) ~~ Lady Nancy Astor, d. 1964...
• I wish I would have a real tragic love affair and get so bummed out that I'd just quit my job and become a bum for a few years, because I was thinking about doing that anyway.
  -- Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handey...
• Well, I mean like,....you've SLEPT, with a lady....
• I'm glad that I'm an American, I'm glad that I am free, But I wish I were a little doggy, And McGovern were a tree.