Quotes 2181 till 2200 of 5500.
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If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
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If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
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If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.
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If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
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If man knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.
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If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
Thoughts, Letters and Minor Works -
If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
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If money is all that a man makes, then he will be poor. Poor in happiness and poor in all that makes life worth living.
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If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.
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If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.
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If one man has a dollar he didn't work for, some other man worked for a dollar he didn't get.
Roughneck, The Life and Times of Big Bill Haywood, Peter Carlson, 1983, page 146. -
If only every man who sees my films did not get the impression he can make love to me, I would be a lot happier.
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If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.
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If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
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If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there'd be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.
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If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.
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If religion is only human, and its form is man's form, it follows that everything in religion is true.
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If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism.
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If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.
Anatomy of an Illness (1979) -
If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test: though a different opinion prevails in this country.
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