If Ifs and Ands were Pots and Pans

The Nursery Rhymes of England (1886) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps

  If ifs and ands,
  Were pots and pans,
There would be no need for tinkers!

A laconic reply to a person who indulges much in supposition.


The Little Mother Goose (1912) by Jessie Willcox Smith

If ifs and ands
Were pots and pans,
There would be no need for tinkers!

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