Related:

• Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of the universe.
  -- Alfonso the Wise [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4....
• If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints. ALFONSO THE WISE
• If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler.
  -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile, Commenting on the Almagest, by Ptolemy....
• My mother loved children---she would have given anything if I had been one.
  -- Groucho Marx, 1890-1977...
• My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
  -- Groucho Marx...
• If there had ever been a time when I could have given my own life to save her I would have done it.
  ... -- Avo...
• If I hadn't had them, I would have had some made.