Oh, who would be a father! [ Holcroft ]

Be as you would seem to be. [ Proverb ]

Void of freedom, what would virtue be? [ Lamartine ]

Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

All men would be cowards if they durst. [ Earl of Rochester ]

I would rather obey than work miracles. [ Luther ]

I would the gods had made thee poetical. [ William Shakespeare ]

Hate sin as you would a poisonous snake.

If wishes would bide, beggars would ride. [ Proverb ]

Love can hope where reason would despair. [ Lyttleton ]

If all were rich, gold would be penniless. [ Bailey ]

He would make his will lord of his reason. [ William Shakespeare ]

Men would be angels; angels would be gods. [ Pope ]

If I were Jesus Christ, I would save Judas. [ Victor Hugo ]

If you would be loved, love and be lovable. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

I would rather make my name than inherit it. [ Thackeray ]

I would help others, out of a fellowfeeling. [ Burton ]

If women were humbler, men would be honester. [ Vanbrugh ]

She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse. [ Swift ]

Study the past if you would divine the future. [ Confucius ]

If dirt was trumps, what hands you would hold! [ Charles Lamb ]

All would like to know, but few to pay the price. [ Juv ]

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. [ George Eliot ]

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

Ah! happy years! once more who would not be a boy! [ Byron ]

Those who would make us feel must feel themselves. [ Churchill ]

Valour would fight, but discretion would run away. [ Proverb ]

If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools. [ George Herbert ]

If you would know and not be known, live in a city. [ Colton ]

As demure as if butter would not melt in his mouth. [ Proverb ]

Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus. [ Apuleius ]

Would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections. [ Lew Wallace ]

A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear. [ George MacDonald ]

Who purposely cheats his friend, would cheat his God. [ Lavater ]

I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety. [ William Shakespeare ]

If you would be good, first believe that you are bad. [ Epictetus ]

Cleanse the fountain if you would purify the streams. [ A. Bronson Alcott ]

If you would create something, you must be something. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

A tedious person is one a man would leap a steeple from. [ Ben Jonson ]

He who would have fine guests, let him have a fine wife. [ Dr. Johnson ]

It would be well had we more misers than we have among us. [ Goldsmith ]

A parson and a ring would make many a poor outcast a lord. [ S. Lover ]

He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit. [ Dryden ]

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him. [ Voltaire ]

Every plan desires to live long; but, no man would be old. [ Swift ]

It is difficult to esteem a man as highly as he would wish. [ Vauvenargues ]

I would seek unto God and unto God would I commit my cause. [ Bible ]

What is pride? a whizzing rocket That would emulate a star. [ Wordsworth ]

Were it not for the black of night, the dawn would not rise. [ Shedad ]

He would be quarter-master at home if his wife would let him. [ Proverb ]

It would take an angel from above to paint the immortal soul. [ Mrs. Welby ]

Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult. [ Samuel Johnson ]

A cottage will hold as much happiness as would stock a palace. [ James Hamilton ]

And the whole world would henceforth be a wider prison unto me. [ Byron ]

Were she perfect, one would admire her more, but love her less. [ Grattan ]

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting. [ Benjamin Franklin ]

If there was no future life, our souls would not thirst for it. [ Richter ]

We do that in our zeal our calm moment would be afraid to answer. [ Scott ]

I would applaud thee to the very echo, that should applaud again. [ William Shakespeare ]

If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth. [ Samuel Johnson ]

Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them. [ Carlyle ]

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself. [ Goethe ]

Had I children, my utmost endeavors would be to make them musicians. [ Horace Walpole ]

You have greatly ventured, but all must do so who would greatly win. [ Byron ]

Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of steps. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

Death's but a path that must be trod, If man would ever pass to God. [ Parnell ]

I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company. [ William Shakespeare ]

If he had two ideas in his head, they would fall out with each other. [ Johnson ]

Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men? [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings. [ Ovid ]

The universe would not be rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man. [ St. Gregory ]

A woman and her servant, acting in accord, would outwit a dozen devils. [ Proverb ]

If I held all of truth in my hand, I would beware of opening it to men. [ Fontenelle ]

Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste. [ Spurgeon ]

Well, if my wind were but long enough to say my prayers, I would repent. [ William Shakespeare ]

Eyes are not so common as poets would think, or poets would be plentier. [ Lowell ]

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven and hell a fable. [ Colton ]

I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs. [ Swift ]

Oh for a muse of fire that would ascend the highest heaven of invention! [ William Shakespeare ]

And as neither would allow the other to pay for him, neither paid at all. [ Heine ]

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God Himself, were it possible. [ Bancroft ]

If you would take a peep at sunshine, look in the face of a young mother. [ Fanny Fern ]

This we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. [ Bible ]

A small drop of ink makes many men honest, who would be rogues without it. [ W. Unsworth ]

Ah! If the pulpit would practice what it preaches, then all would be well. [ Horace Greeley ]

I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil. [ Bible ]

I would thou and I knew where a commodity of good names were to be bought. [ William Shakespeare ]

A man of wit would often be much embarrassed without the company of fools. [ La Roche ]

He that would be angry and sin not must not be angry with anything but sin. [ Seeker ]

If all our wishes were gratified, most of our pleasures would be destroyed. [ Whately ]

If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. [ Frederick the Great ]

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

Men would not live long in society if they were not the dupes of each other. [ La Bruyere ]

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct. [ La Roche ]

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not to talk of ourselves at all. [ Rochefoucauld ]

He will lie, sir, with such volubility that you would think truth were a fool. [ William Shakespeare ]

I would desire for a friend the son who never resisted the tears of his mother. [ Lacretelle ]

If one was to think constantly of death the business of life would stand still. [ Johnson ]

All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. [ Bible ]