Even a blind man could perceive it. [ Proverb ]

If the young knew - if the old could! [ Proverb ]

He could even eat my heart without salt. [ Proverb ]

Alas, could experience be bought for gold! [ Mme. Deluzy ]

Could I love less, I should be happier now. [ Bailey ]

You could make broth, but you have no beef. [ Proverb ]

Nobody would be afraid if he could help it. [ Smollett ]

Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud. [ Bailey ]

You could spy trouble if your eyes were out. [ Proverb ]

Even though vanquished, he could argue still. [ Goldsmith ]

And eyes disclosed what eyes alone could tell. [ Dwight ]

Ah, fool! faint heart fair lady never could win. [ Spenser ]

Who upon earth could live were all judged justly? [ Byron ]

He that is grateful would recompense if he could. [ Proverb ]

O melancholy, whoever yet could sound thy bottom? [ William Shakespeare ]

I never could tread a single pleasure under foot. [ Browning ]

Could my griefs speak, the tale would have no end. [ Otway ]

There is a remedy for everything could men find it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If we did not flatter ourselves, nobody else could. [ Proverb ]

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. [ Thoreau ]

Immortality alone could teach this mortal how to die. [ D. M. Mulock ]

If you could run as you drink you might catch a hare. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

One could make a great book of what has not been said. [ Rivarol ]

The other teams could make trouble for us if they win. [ Yogi Berra ]

Such another peerless queen only could her mirror show. [ Emerson ]

Jack would be a gentleman if he could but speak French. [ Proverb ]

Without big words, how could many people say small things? [ J. Petit-Senn ]

If we could but paint with the hand as we see with the eye! [ Balzac ]

If 'twere not for my cat and dog, I think I could not live. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]

Never was cat or dog drowned, that could but see the shore. [ Proverb ]

There is a remedy for every thing, could we but hit upon it. [ Proverb ]

Quarrels could not last long, were but prudence on one side. [ Proverb ]

She has an eye that could speak, though her tongue were silent. [ Aaron Hill ]

Not Hercules could have knocked out his brains, for he had none. [ William Shakespeare ]

When the fox could not reach the grapes, he cried they are sour. [ Proverb ]

The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase. [ Yogi Berra ]

He sought to have that by practice which he could not by prayer. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

She was so hungry she could not stay for the parson to say grace. [ Proverb ]

Surely nobody would be a charlatan who could afford to be sincere. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Ah, could the soul, like the body, have a mirror! It has, a friend. [ W. R, Alger ]

Sampson was a strong man, yet could not pay money before he had it. [ Proverb ]

How many could be made happy with the happiness lost in this world. [ Levis ]

If the bed could tell all it knows, it would put many to the blush. [ Proverb ]

What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence? [ Michelet ]

The joys of meeting pay the pangs of absence, Else who could bear it? [ Rowe ]

The good which bloodshed could not gain your peaceful zeal shall find. [ Whittier ]

Even if women were immortal, they could never foresee their last lover. [ Lamennais ]

Christ's gospel could never have been delivered by one who was diseased. [ John McC. Holmes ]

After a good dinner one could forgive anybody, even one's own relations. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

Had you the world on your chess-board you could not fill all to your mind. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

If we would not flatter ourselves, the flattery of others could not harm us. [ Rochefoucauld ]

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life could he find it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. [ Holmes ]

When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality. [ Cicero ]

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe. [ Thoreau ]

I thought your love eternal. Was it tied so loosely that a quarrel could divide? [ Dryden ]