All are desirous to win the prize. [ Proverb ]

Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill
Of moving gracefully or standing still.
One leg, as if suspicious of his brother.
Desirous seems to run away from t' other. [ Churchill ]

Sloth views the towers of fame with envious eyes.
Desirous still, still impotent to rise. [ Shenstone ]

We are so desirous of vengeance that people often offend us by not giving offence. [ Madame Deluzy ]

A man that is desirous to excel should endeavor it in those things that are in themselves most excellent. [ Epictetus ]

No man talks of that which he is desirous to conceal, and every man desires to conceal that of which he is ashamed. [ Johnson ]

The land of marriage has this peculiarity: that strangers are desirous of inhabiting it, while its natural inhabitants would willingly be banished from thence. [ Montaigne ]

I cannot see why women are so desirous of imitating men. I could understand the wish to be a boa constrictor, a lion, or an elephant; but a man! that surpasses my comprehension. [ T. Gautier ]

Of riches it is not necessary to write the praise. Let it, however, be remembered that he who has money to spare has it always in his power to benefit others, and of such power a good man must always be desirous. [ Johnson ]