Might Have Been Quotations

You can't afford to think about what might have been. You just be aware of what is.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

I don't think anything might have been. What is, is.

What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.

Another occupation might have been better.

But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon.

Again it might have been the American tendency in travel. One goes, not so much to see but to tell afterward.

He was obviously dead. But since he was a vampire that wasn't as hopless a thing as it might have been.

James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work.