I Quotes
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“If a man can make me laugh and stimulate me intellectually, then I wouldn't mind if he was 4 ft. 8 in. with a huge belly. The only thing that would put me off is bad breath - but even that can be fixed. A bad personality isn't so easy to fix.”
“If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.”
“If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as.”
“If a man can permanently establish his awareness in contact with that pure field (of consciousness), then problems wither away. It's a very simple thing. When the light comes, then where is the darkness?”
“If a man can possess a woman sexually -really possess- he won't need to control her ideas, her opinions, her clothes, her friends, even her other lovers.”
“If a man can preach one sermon without mentioning Christ's name in it, it ought to be his last.”
“If a man can predict his own death and resurrection, and pull it off, I just go with whatever that man says”
“If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life.”
“If a man can save himself, there is no need for a Saviour.”
“If a man can say 'My life is more important than my country,' that man has succeeded in freeing himself from the chains of society!”
“If a man can shoot 10 birdies, there's no reason why he can't shoot 18. Why can't you birdie every hole on the course?”
“If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.”
Source: Commando: The Autobiography of Johnny Ramone
“If a man can wear his wife’s little mistake on his sleeves as a sign of their intimacy, and not be upset with her, but be alright with it, and even admit it as his own and claim possession over it, isn’t that a kind of man she had dreamed of?”
Source: Unleash That River
“If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.”
“If a man can't put his arms around his sons and help them, then what's the world coming to?”
“If a man cannot discipline himself to ignore words born out of anger, jealousy, or envy, he will spend all his life fighting a losing battle.”
“If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is an indication on Nature's part that she did not mean him to be a head worker.”
Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
“If a man cannot feel the power of God when he looks upon the stars, then I doubt whether he is capable of any feeling at all.”
“If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.”
Source: Either/or
“If a man cannot make his point to keen boys in ten minutes, he ought to be shot!”
Source: Playing the Game: A Baden-Powell Compendium
“If a man cannot prove his religion in the valley, it is not worth anything.”
Source: The Quotable Oswald Chambers
“If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window.”
Source: Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature
“If a man cannot serve two masters, neither can Christianity, or several thousand of them as the case may be.”
“If a man cannot tell what he wants to do, then he must find out what he ought to do. If desire has become complicated, then hold fast to duty.”
“If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.”
Source: Killosophy
“If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal.”
Source: The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If a man chooses a certain Way and seems to have no particular talent for this Way, he can still become a master if he so chooses. By keeping at a particular form of study a man can attain perfection either in this life or the next (if a next life is believed in).”
“If a man chooses cohabitation over marriage, his fears are bigger than his love for you; move on.”
“if a man chooses to be promiscuous, he may still turn up his nose at promiscuity. He may still demand a woman be faithful to him, to save him from his own lust. But women have lust, too. Why should they be relegated to the position of custodian of emotions, watcher of the infants, feeder of soul,body and pride of man?”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten.”
Source: The First Four Minutes
“If a man comes to the door of poetry untouched by the madness of the Muses, believing that technique alone will make him a good poet, he and his sane compositions never reach perfection, but are utterly eclipsed by the performances of the inspired madman.”
“If a man comes up to me, I'm almost sure he's going to mention Rome, if it's a woman, it'll be 'Grey's Anatomy.'”
“If a man confessed anything on his death bed, it was the truth; for no man could stare death in the face and lie.”
Source: Works: Later works: Black boy (American hunger) ; The outsider
“If a man considers that he is born, he cannot avoid the fear of death. Let him find out if he has been born or if the Self has any birth. He will discover that the Self always exists, that the body that is born resolves itself into thought and that the emergence of thought is the root of all mischief. Find from where thoughts emerge. Then you will be able to abide in the ever-present inmost Self and be free from the idea of birth or the fear of death.”
“If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.”
“If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power.”
Source: The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses
“If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.”
“If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.”
Source: Poor Richard Day by Day
“If a man could make the earth heaven to get you, could also make it hell for you if he couldn't get you.”
“If a man could mount to Heaven and survey the mighty universe, his admiration of its beauties would be much diminished unless he had someone to share in his pleasure.”
“If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if he found that flower in his hand when he awake - Aye, what then?”
“If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.”
Source: The life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., comprehending an account of his studies, and numerous works, in chronological order: a series of his epistolary correspondence and conversations with many eminent persons; and various original pieces of his composition, never before published; the whole exhibiting a view of literature and literary men in Great Britain, for near half a century during which he flourished
“If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning around in a circle of insignificant interests and insignificant aims, if he could understand what they are losing, he would understand that there can only be one thing that is serious for him - to escape from the general law, to be free. What can be serious for a man in prison who is condemned to death? Only one thing: How to save himself, how to escape: nothing else is serious.”
“If a man couldn’t control his beast, it could turn so violent that nothing could restrain it once enraged.”
Source: Man Tiger
“If a man cries for God and gets a sincere yearning then transformation of life-power within his body takes place spontaneously.”
“If a man cries in front of you, it doesn't mean he's weak. It means that he trusts you enough to let his guard down.”
Source: Truly, Madly, Deeply
“If a man crosses a river
and an empty boat collides with his own skiff,
Even though he be bad tempered man
He will not become very angry.
But if he sees a man in the boat,
He will shout at him to steer clear.
If the shout is not heard, he will shout again, and yet again, and begin cursing.
And all because someone is in the boat.
Yet if the boat were empty,
He would not be shouting, and not angry.
If you can empty your own boat
Crossing the river of the world,
No one will oppose you,
No one will seek to harm you”
“If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.”
“If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.”
“If a man destroys the eye of another man, they shall destroy his eye.”