He would be wise who knew all things beforehand.
Even if Christ's death could have been prevented, Judas would still be a traitor.
He who would make a golden door must add a nail to it daily.
If every day was a sunny day, who would not wish for rain?
Even if a chef cooks just a fly, he would keep the breast for himself.
If a man would live in peace, he should be blind, deaf, and dumb.
If you would make an enemy, lend a man money, and ask for it back again.
If God listened to every shepherd's curse, our sheep would all be dead.
If age and experience came at birth, We would have neither youth nor mirth.
You would do better to sit on a powder keg than on the knee of a woman.
Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy.
He who would be rich should not collect money, but reduce his needs.
If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others would not harm us.
If the bald man knew a remedy he would rub it on his own head.
If charity cost nothing and benevolence caused no heartache, the world would be full of philanthropists.
Men would not be richer for being miserly; generosity does not make a man poorer.
Quinn froze. There was nothing he could do now that would not be a mistake. Whatever choice he made--and he had to make a choice--would be arbitrary, a submission to chance. Uncertainty would haunt him to the end. At that moment, the two Stillmans st...
If we were all given by magic the power to read each other’s thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be almost all friendships would be dissolved; the second effect, however, might be excellent, for a world without any friends would be felt to b...
And what we say - that what He willeth is right and what He doth not not will is wrong, is not so to be understood, as if, should God will something inconsistent, it would be right because He willed it. For it does not follow that if God would lie it...
He brought his lips to my ear. "I would have been gentle with you, though." I shuddered as I closed my eyes. Every inch of my body went taut as his words echoed through me. "I would have had you moaning my name throughout it all. And I would have tak...
But he could not call the doctors at the leprosarium. They would return him to Louisiana. They would treat him and train him and counsel him. They would put him back into life as if his illness were all that mattered, as if wisdom were only skin deep...
