All Quotes

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.
‐‐ E. W. Howe

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.
‐‐ Hermann Hesse

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.
‐‐ Thomas Wolfe

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.
‐‐ George Eastman

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.
‐‐ Herodotus

If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'
‐‐ Barbara W. Tuchman

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.
‐‐ Arnold Rothstein

If a man is going to be an American at all let him be so without any qualifying adjectives, and if he is going to be something else, let him drop the word American from his personal description.
‐‐ Henry Cabot Lodge

If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.
‐‐ Clarence Darrow

If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.
‐‐ Claude McKay

If a man is pictured chopping off a woman's breast, it only gets a 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?
‐‐ Sally Struthers

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
‐‐ Socrates

If a man is talking in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him, is he still wrong?
‐‐ Jenny Weber

If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
‐‐ Jack Kevorkian

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.
‐‐ Abraham Cahan

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.
‐‐ Eva Gabor

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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.
‐‐ Salma Hayek

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.
‐‐ Eldridge Cleaver

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
‐‐ Albert Schweitzer

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.
‐‐ Robert Louis Stevenson

If a man loves you... he's willing to profess it. He'll give you a title after a while. You're going to be his lady, his woman, his fiancee, his wife, his baby's mama, something.
‐‐ Steve Harvey

If a man made himself an expert in any particular branch of human activity, there would result the strong tendency that a peculiar aptitude towards the same branch would be found among some of his descendants.
‐‐ Sidney Lanier

If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.
‐‐ Plato

If a man or a woman puts in an honest day's work, they should to be able to earn a living wage.
‐‐ Richard J. Codey

If a man or woman has something redone it is because he or she can no longer live with that part of their body, it is no longer bearable. Either they get help and find the strength to fight or they proceed with the act.
‐‐ Emmanuelle Beart

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.
‐‐ Mahatma Gandhi

If a man's character is to be abused there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
‐‐ Alexander Pope

If a man's free will to adopt ideas and values is inalienable, his freedom of action - his freedom to put these ideas into effect in the world - is not in such a fortunate condition.
‐‐ Murray Rothbard

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?
‐‐ John Gunther

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

If a man say, 'I love God,' and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.
‐‐ John the Apostle

If a man sees a woman with red lipstick, he admires her, but often he won't feel like kissing her.
‐‐ Monica Bellucci

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
‐‐ Josh Billings

If a man should importune me to give a reason why I loved him, I find it could no otherwise be expressed, than by making answer: because it was he, because it was I.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead. You will never say a good word about deeds that are evil and disgraceful.
‐‐ Aeschylus

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.
‐‐ Michel de Montaigne

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
‐‐ Henry David Thoreau

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
‐‐ Erma Bombeck

If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
‐‐ Irving Babbitt

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.
‐‐ John Bates Clark

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.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

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.
‐‐ Joyce Maynard

If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.
‐‐ Marty Allen

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.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
‐‐ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If a manager can't control his costs, fire them.
‐‐ Kevin O'Leary

If a Martian came down to Earth and watched television, he'd come to conclusion that all the world's society is based on Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. He'd be amazed that our society hasn't collapsed.
‐‐ Michio Kaku