I Quotes
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“If a man wants to be always in God's company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. When we pray, we talk to God; when we read, God talks to us.”
“If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.”
Source: Winslow Homer
“If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.”
“If a man wants to be romantically involved with you, he tries to kiss you. That's the entire story, and if he doesn't kiss you, there is never a reason to wait around for him.”
“If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult or impossible. If he acts, produces and directs, he's called multitalented. If she does the same thing, she's called vain and egotistical.”
“If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.”
Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer
“If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a girl asks to be allowed to set up as a prostitute and she fails, as sometimes happens, it is comic.”
“If a man wants to treat you like an animal,' Duanna whispers, her fingers pressing gently under my chin, forcing my eye. 'Then bite.”
Source: Pearl of Meissa
“If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away,If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay. Stop making excuses for a man and his behavior. Stop trying to change yourself for a relationship that's not meant to be.
Slower is better. Never live your life for a man before you find what makes you truly happy..!”
“If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.”
“If a man was around when Aunt Kathy came by, she would berate him and throw him out. I even saw her toss guys out at gunpoint. She’d threaten them and say, “I will shoot you until I can’t see you!” I remember thinking, “How is that possible? That’s a lot of damn shooting!””
Source: Surviving Chaos: How I Found Peace at A Beach Bar
“If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.”
Source: The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle
“If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.”
Source: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?
“If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheless pays us the kind of attention we rarely receive, we're quite capable of going to bed with him that night, feeling relatively in love. That's what we women are like, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's the nature of the female to open herself to love easily.”
“If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.”
Source: On Literature, Cultures, and Religion
“If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.”
“If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.”
“If a man were only to deal in the world for a day, and should never have occasion to converse more with mankind, never more need their good opinion or good word, it were then no great matter (speaking as to the concernments of this world), if a man spent his reputation all at once, and ventured it at one throw; but if he be to continue in the world, and would have the advantage of conversation while he is in it, let him make use of truth and sincerity in all his words and actions; for nothing but this will last and hold out to the end.”
Source: The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...
“If a man were poor or hungry, [some] would say, let us pray for him. I would suggest a little different regimen for a person in this condition: rather take him a bag of flour and a little beef or pork, and a little sugar and butter. A few such comforts will do him more good than your prayers. And I would be ashamed to ask the Lord to do something that I would not do myself. Then go to work and help the poor yourselves first, and do all you can for them, and then call upon God to do the balance.”
“If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he would become so proud and arrogant as to be a veritable burden and nuisance to the world.”
Source: All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections
“If a man were to look over the fence on one side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his left had laid his garden path round a central lawn; and were to look over the fence on the other side of his garden and observe that the neighbor on his right had laid his path down the middle of the lawn, and were then to lay his own garden path diagonally from one corner to the other, that man's soul would be lost. Originality is only to be praised when not prefaced by the look to right and left.”
“If a man were to marry a second wife, they would not only be committing polygamy, but they would also be committing adultery with the second wife, showing that polygamy, through its relationship with adultery, would be an unpermissable practice.”
Source: Feminism and Biblical Hermeneutics
“If a man whistles at you, don't turn around. You are a lady not a dog.”
“If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?”
“If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky?”
“If a man who claims to see the future is a fool,
how much more so, the man who believes he can control it?
We think we steer the ship of fate,
but all of us are guided by unseen stars.
-Enoclitus”
“If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.”
“If a man who has committed many a misdemeanor does not repent and cleanse his heart of the evil, retribution will come upon his person as sure as the streams run into the ocean which becomes ever deeper and wider. If a man who has committed a misdemeanor come to the knowledge of it, reform himself, and practise goodness, the force of retribution will gradually exhaust itself as a disease gradually loses its baneful influence when the patient perspires.”
“If a man who has no knowledge about anything speaks as if he has knowledge about everything, he is the king of charlatans!”
“If a man who is born to a fortune cannot make himself easier and freer than those who are not, he gains nothing.”
Source: The heart of Boswell: six journals in one volume
“If a man, who says he loves you, won’t tell you the details of a private conversation between him and another woman you can be sure he is not protecting your heart. He is protecting himself and the women he has feelings for. Wise women simply see things as they are, not as their low self-esteem allows.”
“If a man will be righteous and equal, let him see, with his neighbour's eyes, in his own case; and with his own eyes, in his neighbour's case.”
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties”
“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.”
“If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude.”
Source: Astronomicon
“If a man will identify with God in everything, God will use a man like that as His representative”
“If a man will kick a fact out of the window, when he comes back he finds it again in the chimney corner.”
Source: Basic Selections from Emerson: Essays, Poems & Apothegms
“If a man will observe as he walks the streets, I believe he will find the merriest countenances in mourning coaches.”
Source: The Works of Jonathan Swift: Miscellaneous essays
“If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.”
Source: The collected works of Abraham Lincoln
“If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.”
“If a man wishes to ensure the bad opinion of others, his best course probably is to be honest about himself.”
“If a man wishes to have God recognized in the constitution of our country, let him read the history of the Inquisition, and let him remember that hundreds of millions of men, women, and children have been sacrificed to placate the wrath, or win the approbation of this god.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll: Miscellany
“If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish.”
Source: The Works of Friedrich Nietzsche
“If a man wishes to truly not be written about, he would do well not to write letters to 18-year-old girls, inviting them into his life.”
“If a man with a dog sits quietly enjoying music and smiling, his dog might sit down beside him and smile, too. But who knows whether the dog is having a comparable experience or whether the dog is simply happy that his master is happy.”
“If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.”
Source: The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide
“If a man without a sense of smell declared that this yellow rose that I hold had no scent, we should know that he is wrong. The defect is in him, not the flower. It is the same with the man who says there is no God. It merely means that he is without the capacity to discern His presence.”
“If a man, woman, or child of color dies in this dizzying world of theirs, trust that OUR reincarnation wouldn't come in the form of no goddamn tree. We would be buried as cannabis. A beautiful people with the perfect hue, doomed to be routinely smoked by those with seeming unfettered impunity, the...”
“If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.”
“If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll