Ifs Quotes - Page 289

I couldn’t live with myself if I thought nothing could get better.

If you have health, you have everything.

There's no point in working if I'm not involved and interested.

If we're isolated, we come to feel powerless when we're not.

Use what you've got. What you need is usually there if you can see it and if you have the courage to use it.

What's the point if you make something that's not you, and you're successful? You have to perform it the rest of your life.

If the 70's freed our inhibitions, what good did it do?

If you're not enjoying yourself, you can't really look as if you are.

If you spend a lot of time on sportsmanship, you're going to spend a lot of time losing.

There’s a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but it’s really just the inability to carry on clambering through the assault course of mundane cause and effect. If we ask Sheila then we can’t ask Ron. If I have the kippers now then it’s quiche for tea. Four score years is about all the ifs and thens you can take. Dementia’s the sane realisation you just can’t be doing with all that anymore.

I couldn't throw a knuckleball if my life depended on it.

Sometimes if you let people do things to you, you're really doing it to them.

I'm basically stubborn. If anyone disapproved of my being influenced by comics, I simply ignored them.

If a good cartoonist can make a living making his comics, he'll continue to do that; the lesser insincere cartoonist that gets a lot of press will fall by the wayside eventually.

All the exaggerations are right, if they exaggerate the right thing.

if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.

Any misfortune that happens to another person is funny. If it happens to someone else and not me, it's very funny.

If someone says that I'm the best at anything, I always just agree with them. I'm certainly not gonna argue.

If you can do it then why do it?

If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.

It's not worth having if it comes with no effort.

Teaching poetry, teaching as such, is worthy - if back breaking.

If you had a good radio - and everybody did in those days - you could find it.

I don't know if I'd wanna be in the limelight.

Well, you have the right to make a sacrifice of yourself, but I'll be damned if I'll let you sacrifice me!