A phrase that has been bouncing around in my head lately takes the general form: “If wishes were X, we would all Y.” The problem I’ve been having is that I can’t remember what X and Y are. After a brief googlevestigation, I came up with two prime candidates:
If wishes were horses, we would all ride.
If wishes were fishes, we would all cast nests.
The phrasing of the second part is flexible. One of my random candidate Xs was “butterflies” (because I like die Schmetterling) so I looked into that as an option and happened upon (of unknown origin):
If wishes were butterflies, we would never see the sun. [source]
I like that.
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