If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
‐‐ Saint Augustine
If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because it is a contract to violate natural justice, or men's natural rights.
‐‐ Lysander Spooner
If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.
‐‐ Lyndon B. Johnson
If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.
‐‐ Darryl F. Zanuck
If two men or two women can marry, then there is no way a court could deny three men and two women or any combination thereof.
‐‐ James Dobson
If two of your films don't do well, people say you're out in the cold and your career is over. One film does well, and you've had the best year of your life! I don't believe in all that's written.
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra
If two people always agree, one of them is redundant.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke
If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have a sense they can trust each other.
‐‐ James Altucher
If two people have only one thought between them, something is very wrong.
‐‐ Sarah Jessica Parker
If two people were exactly alike, one of them would be unnecessary.
‐‐ Larry Dixon
If two scientists are giving their papers at a symposium, and one of them is just naturally better at talking to the public or talking to a group of people, that scientist is liable to get more attention - in fact, I'm told that they do get more attention - than the one who's a little more stiff about it. Well, that's not good for science.
‐‐ Alan Alda
If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.
‐‐ Jurgen Klopp
If two very different people pool their DNA, they'll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with a wider array of skills.
‐‐ Helen Fisher
If two wrongs don't make a right, then what do three wrongs make? What about four?
‐‐ Buzz Osborne
If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
‐‐ Laurence J. Peter
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
‐‐ James Madison
If U.S. focuses on truth and justice, we'll realize that Israel has been there for 3,000 years - the same language, the same people, the same culture for 3,000 years - and it's always astonishing to me that we somehow now think that they're the occupiers.
‐‐ Trent Franks
If U.S. national sovereignty continues, it is only as a state that Puerto Rico will have permanent 10th Amendment powers over its non-federal affairs, as well as voting power in Congress.
‐‐ Dick Thornburgh
If U.S. occupation is a primary recruitment tool and what inspires Islamic terrorists, are many of our current efforts overseas actually fighting terrorism and diminishing the threat?
‐‐ Rand Paul
If UCL did offer to reinstate me, it would be churlish of me to refuse, but really, my work there was over.
‐‐ Tim Hunt
If Uncle Martin were here today, he would surely commend us for giving honor where honor is due.
‐‐ Alveda King
If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
‐‐ Candice Millard
If Unix could present the same face, the same capabilities, on machines of many different types, it could serve as a common software environment for all of them.
‐‐ Eric S. Raymond
If utopian fiction became the new trend, I wouldn't read it.
‐‐ Veronica Roth
If values matter in an organisation, you have to be prepared to act consistently.
‐‐ Carly Fiorina
If vampires and werewolves were walking around today, there would be chaos. People would be losing their minds.
‐‐ Rutina Wesley
If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?
‐‐ Octavia E. Butler
If Vancouver did not succeed as Starbucks from '87 on, our entire international business, which is now thousands of stores and a significant amount of growth and profit, may not have existed.
‐‐ Howard Schultz
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam.
‐‐ Johnny Carson
If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
‐‐ Larry Gelbart
If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
‐‐ James Boswell
If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary power cannot be established.
‐‐ Algernon Sidney
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
‐‐ Epictetus
If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it.
‐‐ Ken Livingstone
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
‐‐ Emma Goldman
If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
‐‐ Carlos Slim
If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
‐‐ Victoria Principal
If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.
‐‐ Eamon de Valera
If war illuminates love, love offers the possibility of allowing some light to be brought back out of the shadows. It's almost as if they buttress and make possible an understanding of each other.
‐‐ Richard Flanagan
If war is the solution, why didn't Roosevelt declare war on poverty?
‐‐ Preston Sturges
If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.
‐‐ Richard Louv
If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.
‐‐ Townsend Harris
If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.
‐‐ Michael Bloomberg
If was, increased by a lack of railways in Russia - for bringing up supplies to our advancing troops.
‐‐ Gerd von Rundstedt
If Washington continues to fumble issues like taking care of the debt, getting the troops home, and rebuilding our economy, my wife and I may sit down and say, 'These are critical things and maybe we need to get back in the ball.'
‐‐ Joe Scarborough
If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?
‐‐ Jon Voight
If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead... Although I am certain that he cried, that we all cried, what I remember more is how we collapsed into each other, as if the weight of our loss literally crushed us.
‐‐ Ann Hood
If waterboarding's OK, why don't we let our police do it to suspects so we can learn what they know? We only seem to waterboard Muslims... Have we waterboarded anyone else?
‐‐ Jesse Ventura
If way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst.
‐‐ Thomas Hardy