To wish for things does not yield to anything.
If just hoping and wishing for things would make it happen then even the poorest of all people would have everything that they desire.
One should work in order to get things instead of wishing for them.
She told me she wanted to become Miss Universe and I said, “If wishes were horses, beggars would ride“. How else was I to react to such an absurd thing?
I was day dreaming about being the king of the world when my wife reminded me that if wishes were horses, beggars would ride.
There is no origin for this idiom
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