if pigs had wings, they'd fly

English

Proverb

if pigs had wings, they'd fly

  1. Alternative form of if pigs had wings, they would fly.
    • 1988 February, Kim Stanley Robinson, chapter 73, in The Gold Coast (Three Californias Trilogy; 2), New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →ISBN, page 344:
      “I can’t change the way the world is, and neither can you.” “But we can try! If everyone tried—” “If pigs had wings, they’d fly. Be realistic.”
    • 1990, Alana White, chapter 3, in Come Next Spring, New York, N.Y.: Clarion Books, →ISBN, page 37:
      “I learned how to twirl this summer. If we had a band at school like my cousin Jim has in Sevierville, I’d be a majorette.” / And if pigs had wings, they’d fly, Salina thought.
    • 1991 June, Gene DeWeese, chapter 22, in Renegade (Star Trek: The Original Series; 55), New York, N.Y.: Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 276:
      “It is merely that if people are inclined to trust other people, they generally have neither the desire nor the reason to develop such schemes in the first place.” / McCoy snorted. “And if pigs had wings, they’d fly.”
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