If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be messed-up.
Mitch Hedberg

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
Lao Tzu

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
Lao Tzu

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
Napoleon Bonaparte

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Napoleon Bonaparte

What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. Schuller

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
Mae West

If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
Mae West

If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible for the fate of every human being who has come my way.
Anais Nin

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
Coco Chanel

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

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar Wilde

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Oscar Wilde

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Oscar Wilde

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Edgar Allan Poe

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.
Ernest Hemingway

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Ernest Hemingway