A thing desired, but regretfully wanting.

What is much desired is not believed when it comes. [ Spanish Proverb ]

Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter,
To what shall their rarity be likened?
What price shall count their worth?
Perfect and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches,
No lovely thing on earth can picture all their beauty. [ Tupper ]

I never desired you to stumble at the stone that lies at my door. [ Proverb ]

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are to be desired when dying. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired. [ Amiel ]

Something like home, that is not home, is to be desired; it is to be found in the house of a friend. [ Sir W. Temple ]

The mob have neither judgment nor principle, - ready to bawl at night for the reverse of what they desired in the morning. [ Tacitus ]

The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems enshrined in its own nectar. It has obtained a worthy reward for its great toils; we may suppose that the bee itself would have desired such a death. [ Martial ]

When the desire of wealth is taking hold of the heart, let us look round and see how it operates upon those whose industry or fortune has obtained it. When we find them oppressed with their own abundance, luxurious with out pleasure, idle without ease, impatient and querulous in themselves, and despised or hated by the rest of mankind, we shall soon be convinced that if the real wants of our condition are satisfied, there remains little to be sought with solicitude or desired with eagerness. [ Dr. Johnson ]