Would Quotes

The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

If any philosopher had been asked for a definition of infinity, he might have produced some unintelligible rigmarole, but he would certainly not have been able to give a definition that had any meaning at all.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

I'm not the kind of actor that would know what my character had for breakfast last Tuesday.

If you would judge, understand.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

If God had wanted us to be concerned for the plight of the toads, he would have made them cute and furry.

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone.

Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Perfect courage is to do without witnesses what one would be capable of doing with the world looking on.

The historical basis for the gap between the black middle class and underclass shows that ending discrimination, by itself, would not eradicate black poverty and dysfunction. We also need intervention to promulgate a middle-class ethic of success among the poor, while expanding opportunities for economic betterment.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

We would like to see you departing peacefully.

Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

I was the youngest child and really spoiled. I loved to play make-believe. I loved pretending to be all kinds of different people and it just seemed natural that I would go into acting.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

If your life had lyrics, would they be any good?

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?