All Quotes

If a lecturer, he wishes to be heard; if a writer, to be read. He always hopes for a public beyond that of the long-suffering wife.
‐‐ Samuel E. Morison

If a lending institution is faced with bids for a package of toxic assets that are less than the carrying value of those assets, the sale of those assets would trigger a further loss and reduce the underlying capital of the institution.
‐‐ Roger Altman

If a liberal News channel were launched it would fall flat on its face.
‐‐ Paul Weyrich

If a liberal political philosophy stands for anything, and I am no longer sure it does, then it must mean that we are committed to the leveling of the playing field for everyone.
‐‐ Daniel Keys Moran

If a liberal were to attack Justice Clarence Thomas on the grounds that he's black, we would all go crazy.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
‐‐ A. E. Housman

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
‐‐ Ludwig Wittgenstein

If a listener nods his head when you're explaining your program, wake him up.
‐‐ Alan Perlis

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.
‐‐ Aaron Copland

If a little black girl in Montgomery, Alabama, or some far-reaching region sees something that I do and aspires to do it one day with the knowledge that she can achieve it, then hey, my work is done.
‐‐ Octavia Spencer

If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
‐‐ Marcel Proust

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
‐‐ Thomas Huxley

If a little knowledge was a dangerous thing, a lot was lethal.
‐‐ Tom Sharpe

If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.
‐‐ Austan Goolsbee

If a local market is supporting the team strongly, you're not going to have a lot of support for a team leaving that market.
‐‐ Bob McNair

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
‐‐ Sam Snead

If a magician makes a mistake, it's sometimes forgiven by the audience. If a gambling cheat makes a mistake, they will almost certainly lose their lives - and probably in a horrible manner.
‐‐ Steve Truglia

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
‐‐ Vinoba Bhave

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

If a man becomes more mature due to certain episodes in his life, it gives him the opportunity to look at life in a much more deep way. I believe the artist and the man work parallel, with the same feelings, the same soul, the same sensitivity.
‐‐ Jose Carreras

If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

If a man breaks a pledge, the public ought to know it.
‐‐ Steve Forbes

If a man can beat you, walk him.
‐‐ Satchel Paige

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.
‐‐ James Dean

If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.
‐‐ S. Truett Cathy

If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

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.
‐‐ Thomas Huxley

If a man carries his horse out of a slave State into a free one, be does not lose his property interest in him; but if he carries his slave into a free State, the law makes him free.
‐‐ Benjamin F. Wade

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.'
‐‐ Kevin McKidd

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

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.
‐‐ Horatio Nelson

If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.
‐‐ Kevin O'Leary

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

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?
‐‐ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
‐‐ Albrecht Durer

If a man does his best, what else is there?
‐‐ George S. Patton

If a man does not control his temper, it is a sad admission that he is not in control of his thoughts.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

If a man dreams that he has committed a sin before which the sun hid his face, it is often safe to conjecture that, in sheer forgetfulness, he wore a red tie, or brown boots with evening dress.
‐‐ Arthur Machen

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

If a man, for private profit, tears at the public news, does so with the impatience of one who thinks he actually owns the news you get, it is against the national interest.
‐‐ Jimmy Breslin

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
‐‐ James A. Michener

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
‐‐ Sigmund Freud

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.
‐‐ Sam Rayburn

If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.
‐‐ Oliver Sacks