Quotes 1261 till 1280 of 3090.
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If a little labor, little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
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If a madman were to come into this room with a stick in his hand, no doubt we should pity the state of his mind; but our primary consideration would be to take care of ourselves. We should knock him down first, and pity him afterwards.
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If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
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If a man does his best, what else is there?
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone; one should keep his friendships in constant repair.
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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.
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If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.
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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.
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If a man has done his best, what else is there?
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If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
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If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
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If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.
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If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.
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If a marker were to be erected today, it might read, in homage to his scientific courage: He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions.
Cosmos (1980) p. 67 -
If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.
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If a person is not talented enough to be a novelist, not smart enough to be a lawyer, and his hands are too shaky to perform operations, he becomes a journalist.
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