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• I would've got away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids.
• And I would've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for these meddling kids.
  -- Sideshow Bob, "Krusty Gets Busted...
• That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me.
• I would have been your Daddy, but the dog beat me over the fence.
• This is a test. Had it been an actual attack, the warning system wouldn't have worked.
• Rush Limbaugh's theories would have worked in the 1800's ...maybe
• Marge: I'm sure you'll make plenty of friends. All you have to do is be yourself.
  [walks away] Lisa: Be myself? I've been myself for eight years and it hasn't worked....
• My advice to any diplomat who wants to have a good press is to have two or three kids and a dog.
  -- Carl Rowa...
• Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompso