I Quotes
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“If throughout your entire life you make no fortune; travel next to nowhere; obtain a meager education; invent nothing new; are a stranger to fame; lack talent, wit, and charm—if these things are true and yet in the heart of every human who crosses your path you plant a seed of happiness, or, at the very least, you coax a smile from the saddest faces, your life will indeed be the greatest success story ever.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind, generous or useful action. This very inadequate notion of virtue is an outcome of taboo morality, and has done untold harm.”
Source: Human Society in Ethics and Politics
“If thy brother wrongs thee, remember not so much his wrong-doing, but more than ever that he is thy brother.”
“If thy daughter marry well, thou hast found a son; if not, thou hast lost a daughter.”
“If Thy dear home be fuller, Lord, For that a little emptier. My house on earth, what rich rewards. That guerdon were.”
Source: Fragments that Remain
“If thy debtor be honest and capable, thou hast thy money again, if not with increase, with praise; if he prove insolvent, don't ruin him to get that which it will not ruin thee to lose, for thou art but a steward.”
Source: The autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
“If thy desire to raise thy fortunes encourage thy delights to the casts of fortune, be wise betimes, lest thou repent too late; what thou gettest, thou gainest by abused providence; what thou losest, thou losest by abused patience; what thou winnest is prodigally spent; what thou losest is prodigally lost; it is an evil trade that prodigally drives; and a bad voyage where the pilot is blind.”
Source: Enchiridon: containing institutions divine, moral
“If thy emperor violates the constitution of Brabant, his subjects no longer owe him obedience. Thou people from Brabant who, to the greater glory of the southern Netherlands, are lucky enough to live under the constitution of Brabant, Thou will lose them!”
“If thy faith have no doubts, thou has just cause to doubt thy faith; and if thy doubts have no hope, thou hast just reason to fear despair; when therefore thy doubts shall exercise thy faith, keep thy hopes firm to qualify thy doubts; so shall thy faith be secured from doubts; so shall thy doubts be preserved from despair.”
“If thy friends be of better quality than thyself, thou mayest be sure of two things; first, they will be more careful to keep thy counsel, because they have more to lose than thou hast; the second, they will esteem thee for thyself, and not for that which thou dost possess.”
Source: Miscellaneous works
“If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“If thy heart fails thee, climb not at all.”
“If thy hope be any thing worth, it will purify thee from thy sins.”
Source: The Solemn Warnings of the Dead: Or, An Admonition to Unconverted Sinners
“If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.”
“If thy words are wise, they will not seem so to the foolish: if they are deep the shallow will not appreciate them. Think not highly of thyself, then, when thou art praised by many.”
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion
“If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee; he that thinks he never can speak enough may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.”
Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles
“IF TIGER TEACHES A RABBIT; HOW TO TEACH? EAT ONLY WHEN YOU’RE HUNGRY”
“If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.”
“If Tiger Woods slamming his club into the ground is the biggest worry wehave, our sport isinprettygood shape.”
“If Tim Duncan had 'Knicks' on his jersey, he'd be a god. He'd be more than Patrick Ewing. With four championships and two MVPs, I think people realize he's one of the best ever, but if he played in New York, he'd be way more famous.”
“If Tim Duncan had Knicks on his jersey, he'd be a god.”
“If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity.”
Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems
“If time be a ring of gold, opportunity is the rich diamond that gives it both its value and glory.”
Source: The whole works of the Reverend Mr. John Flavel ... To which are added, alphabetical tables of the texts of Scripture explained; and indexes of principal matters contained in the whole
“If time be judiciously employed, there is time for everything.”
Source: Home Tour Through the Manufacturing Districts of England in the Summer of 1835
“If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.”
Source: Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818
“If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time is never found again'; and 'What we call time enough always proves little enough'. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.”
“If time came before me, time is not before the Word, whose Begetter is atemporal. When the beginningless Father was there, leaving nothing superior to His divinity, then also was there the Father's Son, having in the Father a timeless beginning, like the sun's great circle of overwhelming clear light.”
“If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough.”
“If time has no beginning and no end, everything is happening, will happen, has happened, at the same moment. All eternity in a single moment.”
“If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.”
Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart
“If time heals all wounds, then why are there so many ticked off old people walking around.”
“If time is a staircase, reality is a Slinky. Decades can be parsed. Television, frequently accused of destabilizing life, is actually what stitches the segments together.”
“If time is a web then it is a series of straight and crooked lines, but it is also a spiral with many gaps in between.”
“If time is indeed money then we are all equally rich. Now that's Communism!”
“If time is money and you wasted my time, then give me back my money!”
Source: The New Land
“If time is money, how much is a lifetime?”
Source: The New Land
“If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.”
Source: Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life
“If time is money/ I'm an hour past paid”
“If time is my vessel, then learning to love might be my way back to sea”
“If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion.”
Source: Siddhartha: An Indian Tale
“If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.”
Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...
“If time is the dimension of change, then space is the dimension of coexisting difference. And that is both a source of nourishment (something that the globalisation gurus seem altogether to have foregone), and a challenge (how negotiate difference, how to address inequality, and so forth).”
“If time is treated in modern physics as a dimension on a par with the dimensions of space, why should we a priori exclude the possibility that we are pulled as well as pushed along its axis? The future has, after all, as much or as little reality as the past, and there is nothing logically inconceivable in introducing, as a working hypothesis, an element of finality, supplementary to the element of causality, into our equations. It betrays a great lack of imagination to believe that the concept of "purpose" must necessarily be associated with some anthropomorphic deity.”
“If time means nothing to you, then surf the Web.”
“If Time Never Flew by Stewart Stafford
If a horologist froze time at dusk,
And there was no day or night,
Or days, months, and years,
What then for Earth’s masters?
Winged time stilled in a bell jar,
A castaway preserved in aspic,
Or stickily-entombed in amber,
Statuesque life an infinite daymare.
Boredom creeping up slowly,
A lockdown without progress,
The horologist would thaw time,
Freeing reality’s ebb and flow.
© Stewart Stafford, 2022. All rights reserved.”
“If time passes, and you still do what you love, then you are on the right way.”
“If time seems to stand still, let us meet in a place where luck is on our side.”
“If time still allows, do not sit and do nothing. Do something with your life.”
Source: The Precious Gift of Time: Inspirational Quotes and Sayings
“If time stood still for a moment, what would you be grateful for? And will it be enough to allow time to have meaning when it begins?”
“If time stood still, and we could choose the time, the best time, then love without pain would be all I know.”
Source: Isabelle the Navigator