I Quotes
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“If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.”
Source: Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.”
Source: Proposed Roads to Freedom
“If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.”
“If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets an R rating; but if, God forbid, a man is pictured kissing a woman's breast, it gets an X rating. Why is violence more acceptable than tenderness?”
“If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.”
Source: London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript
“If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.”
Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study
“If a man is really into you, nothing will stop him from being with you - including a fear of intimacy.”
Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
“If a man is respectful he will not be treated with insolence. If he is tolerant he will win the multitude. If he is trustworthy in word his fellow men will entrust him with responsibility. If he is quick he will achieve results.”
“If a man is right, he can't be too radical; if he is wrong, he can't be too conservative.”
Source: Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day
“If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.”
Source: Run to Daylight!: Vince Lombardi’s Diary of One Week with the Green Bay Packers
“If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.”
“If a man is to be a man, a free spirit unto himself, he must arm himself not only with weapons but with ideals and concepts he is willing to die for.”
“If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.”
“If a man is to become fully himself - and this is not something that happens automatically just because you arrive at a particular age - he is going to have to give up some things in the process. Be it drugs, infidelity, childishness, lying, fear of intimacy, violence - none of these things contribute to being a man”
“If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.”
Source: Thoughts In Solitude
“If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.”
Source: March
“If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.”
Source: John Christopher: Journey's end
“If a man is tongue-tied, don't laugh at him, but, rather, feel pity for him, as you would for a man with broken legs.”
Source: The Rise of David Levinsky
“If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.”
“If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy.”
Source: Discourses ...
“If a man is unmarried, he is called a bachelor. If a woman is unmarried, she is called a spinster or an old maid. What is it about an unmarried woman that poses such a threat to the patriarchal order? Mainly, it is that women are no one's property when we're unmarried. We're under no one's control, and neither are our children. There is no telling what we might do or say.”
Source: A Woman's Worth
“If a man is waiting for someone in the wrong place, and he knows he's waiting in the wrong place, then know that he's waiting to avoid being found!”
“If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.”
“If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.”
Source: Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country
“If a man is worth loving at all, he is worth loving generously, even recklessly.”
“If a man isn't a certain age, he just isn't interesting.”
“If a man isn't being nice when you're out, all you have to do is remain polite and then go home early.”
Source: Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl—A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
“If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.”
“If a man just stops to think what he has to praise God for, he will find there is enough to keep him singing praises for a week.”
“If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others.”
Source: Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean
“If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door.”
Source: Nods and Becks
“If a man knew how to live he would never die.”
Source: All the King's Men
“If a man knew what a woman never forgets, he would love her differently.”
Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
“If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every inn, and look upon all his extravagances as so much gained upon the thieves.”
“If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.”
Source: Memories, dreams, reflections
“If a man knows not life which he hath seen, how shall he know death, which he hath not seen?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)
“If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
“If a man knows nothing but hard times, he will paint them, for he must be true to himself.”
“If a man knows precisely what he can do to you or what epithet he can hurl against you in order to make you lose your temper, your equilibrium, then he can always keep you under subjection.”
Source: A Strange Freedom: The Best of Howard Thurman on Religious Experience and Public Life
“If a man knows what he wants, then he is in a position to decide that he will get it. This is faith. The determined decision of a man with desire.”
“If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.”
“If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.”
Source: SOUL ON ICE
“If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he tried to live subsequently. And how men dealt with that law ultimately revealed their true natures.”
“If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.”
“If a man lives to any considerable age, it can not be denied that he laments his imprudences, but I notice he often laments his youth a deal more bitterly and with a more genuine intonation.”
Source: Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Louis Stevenson
“If a man look upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is stealing the other’s birthright – that of equality.”
“If a man loses a dear friend, he looks around and sees many friends come to console and comfort him. If a man loses his wealth, after a little thought he will realize that the delight that came from wealth will be restored by finding more. Thus he forgets his loss and is consoled. But if a man's heart is deprived of peace, where will he find it again, how will he replace it?”
“If a man loses anything and goes back and looks carefully for it, he will find it.”
“If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.”