I Quotes
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“If a man has ten good qualities and one bad one, to look at the ten and forget the one, and if a man has ten bad qualities and one good one, to look at the one and forget the ten.”
“If a man has the right to self-ownership, to the control of his life, then in the real world he must also have the right to sustain his life by grappling with and transforming resources; he must be able to own the ground and the resources on which he stands and which he must use. In short, to sustain his human right.”
Source: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto
“If a man has to ask for your trust, it's a sure sign that you should not give it. Trust should be earned inherently, without any verbal demands. Trust is knowing a man's character, knowing truth, and relying on that character and truth even when the odds seem against you.”
Source: Heartless
“If a man has to make a woman the center of his love, why should he integrate animality into this sacred human emotion?...Is love incompelete without it?...Is love the name of physical excersize ?”
“If a man has to say trust me, Gogu conveyed, it's a sure sign you cannot. Trust him, that is. Trust is a thing you know without words.”
“If a man has tortured and killed your father, your mother, your sweetheart, in short, one of those beings who leave an eternal emptiness and a perpetually bleeding wound when they are torn from your heart, do you think society has given you sufficient reparation because the blade of the guillotine has passed between the murderer's trapezius and his occipital bone, because the who made you undergo long years of mental and emotional suffering has undergone a few seconds of physical pain?”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“If a man has wealth, he has to make a choice, because there is the money heaping up. He can keep it together in a bunch, and then leave it for others to administer after he is dead. Or he can get it into action and have fun, while he is still alive. I prefer getting it into action and adapting it to human needs, and making the plan work.”
“If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.”
Source: The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr
“If a man hasn't found anything worth dying for, he hasn't anything worth living for.”
“If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.”
“If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism.”
Source: Twilight of the Idols with the Antichrist and Ecce Homo
“If a man, having lashed two hulls together, is crossing a river, and an empty boat happens along and bumps into him, no matter how hot-tempered the man may be, he will not get angry. But if there should be someone in the other boat, then he will shout out to haul this way or veer that. If his first shout is unheeded, he will shout again, and if that is not heard, he will shout a third time, this time with a torrent of curses following. In the first instance, he wasn't angry; now in the second he is. Earlier he faced emptiness, now he faces occupancy. If a man could succeed in making himself empty, and in that way wander through the world, then who could do him harm?”
“If a man holds a door open for me or pulls back a chair so that this old bag can sit down, I'm delighted. Women who moan and carp about that sort of thing are stupid”
“If a man in order to shoot a hare, were to discharge thousands of guns on a great moor in all possible directions; if in order to get into a locked room, he were to buy ten thousand casual keys, and try them all; if, in order to have a house, he were to build a town, and leave all the other houses to wind and weather - assuredly no one would call such proceedings purposeful and still less would anyone conjecture behind these proceedings a higher wisdom, unrevealed reasons, and superior prudence.”
Source: Contemporary Mind - Some Modern Answers
“If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.”
Source: The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius
“If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.”
“If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous.”
“If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.”
Source: A man
“If a man is a quitter, I'd rather find out in practice than in a game. I ask for all a player has so I'll know later what I can expect.”
“If a man is able to submit himself to nature, then nature will react to his needs. Almighty nature is all powerful and all loving, for the laws of nature are for the creation and evolution of all beings and creatures throughout the cosmos. There is no greater kindness than the kindness of nature.”
Source: Thirty Years Around the World: 1957-1964
“If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.”
“If a man is amazing in bed, you can rationalize just about anything to keep him there.”
Source: Bliss
“If a man is at heart just, then in so far is he God; the safety of God, the immortality of God, the majesty of God do enter into that man with justice.”
Source: Self-Reliance, the Over-Soul, and Other Essays
“If a man is both wise and lucky, he will not make the same mistake twice. But he will make any one of ten thousand brothers or cousins of the original.”
“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
“If a man is crossing the river and an empty boat collides with his skiff, even though he is a bad tempered man he will not become very angry. But if he sees a man in the other boat he will scream and shout and curse at the man to steer clear. 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. Thus is the perfect man - his boat is empty.”
“If a man is cruel, he destroy himself.”
“If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look on his humility as a weakness; if he is generous, we call his courage pride.”
“If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is”
“If a man is endowed with a noble and courageous soul, if he is painstaking, proud, ambitious, without meanness, of a profound a deep-seated intelligence, I dare assert that he lacks nothing to be neglected by the great and men in high office, who fear, more than other men, those whom they cannot dominate.”
Source: La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims
“If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.”
Source: Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
“If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.”
Source: The greatest minds and ideas of all time
“If a man is going to leave one wife to marry another, it's better if he divorces the first before he marries the second.”
Source: Good as Gold
“If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.”
“If a man is good, he is good to himself.”
“If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.”
“If a man is ignorant and you encourage him with wise words he will hate you but if a man is ignorant and you teach him also to be wise then for each wise encouragement he shall show great gratitude.”
“If a man is in any sense a real mathematician, then it is a hundred to one that his mathematics will be far better than anything else he can do, and that he would be silly if he surrendered any decent opportunity of exercising his one talent in order to do undistinguished work in other fields. Such a sacrifice could be justified only by economic necessity of age.”
“If a man is in doubt whether it would be better for him to expose himself to martyrdom or not, he should not do it. He must be convinced that he has a delegation from heaven.”
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 is in love with you...
1) He will apologize
2) He will sacrifice for you
3) He will be consistent
4) He will be loyal to you
5) He will protect and defend you
6) He does NOT intentionally hurt you
BONUS: He is emotionally available.”
“If a man is in need of rescue, an airplane can come in and throw flowers on him, and that's just about all. But a direct lift aircraft could come in and save his life.”
“If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!”
Source: Pygmalion and Major Barbara
“If a man is keeping an idea to himself, and that idea is taken by stealth or trickery-I say it is stealing. But once a man has revealed his idea to others, it is no longer his alone. It belongs to the world.”
Source: A single shard
“If a man is known by the company he keeps, so also his character is reflected in the books he reads.”
Source: Spiritual Leadership, Spiritual Discipleship, Spiritual Maturity Set of 3 Sanders books
“If a man is not aware of the existence of the moon, what can the moon do for him except continue sending its lights upon him?”
“If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.”
Source: A Long Way from Home
“If a man is not good, what has he to do with the rules of propriety? If he is not good, what has he to do with music?”
“If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?”
Source: Penses
“If a man is not peaceful and non-violent, whichever religion he belongs to, he is not a man! Violence degrades man to a low-degree creature!”
“If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.”
Source: The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions