Would Quotes

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say 'I want to see the manager.'

Men would be angels, angels would be gods.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

I was raised by a single mother who made a way for me. She used to scrub floors as a domestic worker, put a cleaning rag in her pocketbook and ride the subways in Brooklyn so I would have food on the table. But she taught me as I walked her to the subway that life is about not where you start, but where you're going. That's family values.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

I believe that if one always looked at the skies, one would end up with wings.

Women would rather be right than reasonable.