Could
of Can
Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present.
Related Definitions:
Able,
An,
As,
Auxiliary,
Be,
Can,
Capable,
Conditional,
In,
Of,
Or,
Past,
Present,
Should,
Susceptible,
Tense,
The,
Used,
Was,
Would
Could Quotations
Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
Albert Einstein
A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
Winston Churchill
Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.
Abraham Lincoln
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.
Abraham Lincoln
George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.
Mark Twain
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Oscar Wilde
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain
Could Translations
could in Swedish is kunde
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