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• Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. -- Sir Walter Raleigh
• Fain would I, but I dare not; I dare, and yet I may no
  I may, although I care not, for pleasure when I play not....
• I would fain die a dry death. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), The Tempest -- Act i, Sc. 1
• We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.
  -- Joseph Addiso...
• I would jog, but the ice would fall out of my glass.
• You are to be congratulated, my friend. We live in an age where illness and deformity are commonplace, and yet Ploppy, you are without a doubt the most.
  ..repulsive individual I've ever met. I would shake your hand, but I fear it would come off....
• I will not fear. Fear is the mind killer.
• If I had my life to live over, I'd dare to make mistakes next time.
  I'd relax, I'd limber up. I would be sillier than I been this trip....
• Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Macbeth -- Act i, Sc. 5...