When God endowed human beings with brains,
He did not intend to guarantee them. [ Montesquieu ]

Intend honestly and leave the event to God. [ Aesop ]

You pretend the public but intend yourself. [ Proverb ]

When any great design thou dost intend,
Think on the means, the manner, and the end. [ Sir J. Denham ]

To do no evil is good; to intend none is better. [ Claudius ]

Bring something lass along with you, if you intend to live with me. [ Proverb ]

In every work regard the writer's end, Since none can compass more than they intend. [ Pope ]

I intend no modification of my oftexpressed wish that all men everywhere could be free. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

Thou art sworn as deeply to affect what we intend as closely to conceal what we impart. [ William Shakespeare ]

Resentment gratifies him who intended an injury, and pains him unjustly who did not intend it. [ Johnson ]

Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived. [ Colton ]

I have strictly adhered to the rule of never copying. I write at once as I intend the words to stand. This leads to great precision of thought, and makes the style fresh and vigorous. [ Louisa Molesworth, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired. But let another person try my way, and see where he will come out. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]