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  • I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know
  • I am not young enough to know everything
  • I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it
  • I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past
  • I make the most of all that comes, and the least of all that goes
  • I must not serve distant neighbours at the expense of the nearest
  • I pray for power which none can bend
  • I shall never believe that god plays dice with the world
  • I would rather be attacked than unnoticed
  • Ideas, like time and tide, wait for no one
  • Identify your weak link and Act now
  • If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich
  • If a man be great, even his dog will wear a proud look.
  • If a man bites a dog, that is news
  • If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.
  • If a man destined to drown, he will drown even in a bucket of water
  • If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand
  • If all else fails  … Lower your standards
  • If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.
  • If at first you don’t succeed, Try once more and then try something else
  • If every body remembered the past, nobody would ever forgive any body.
  • If eye for eye is the rule, the world will be full of blind people
  • If god did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him
  • If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.
  • If I don’t go I don’t get
  • If I had 8 hours to chop a tree I would spend 6 hours sharpening my axe
  • If it’s stupid but works, it isn’t stupid.
  • If mountain won’t come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to mountain
  • If peace cannot be maintained with honour, it is no longer peace
  • If people are not able to do anything, they always throw the blame on unfavourable circumstances
  • If someone betrays you once, it is his fault; If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.
  • If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch. 
  • If the dog barks, the mountain is not injured
  • If the patient dies, the doctor has killed him, but if he gets well, the saints have saved him.
  • If the poor man cannot always get food the rich man cannot always digest it.
  • If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom
  • If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it,
  • If you always live with those who are lame, you will yourself learn to limp
  • If you are foolish enough to be contended, don’t show it, but grumble with the rest
  • If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
  • If you are willing to admit faults, you have one less fault to admit.
  • If you buy what you don’t want you can’t buy what you want
  • If you can dream it, You can do it
  • If you choose not to decide - you still have made a choice
  • If you do not make mistake, It only means you are not trying 100%
  • If you don’t place your foot on the rope, you will never cross the chasm
  • If you go through the wars, You get the medals
  • If you lend, you either loose the money or gain an enemy
  • If you offer peanuts, you will get monkeys
  • If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
  • If you risk nothing, then you risk everything
  • If you want a thing done well, do it yourself
  • If you want people to like you, agree with them
  • If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive
  • If you want to know the value of money. Go and try to borrow some.
  • If you want to move mountains, you have to first learn how to move particles
  • If you want to succeed in life appear like a fool, but be wise
  • If you want your children to improve, let them over hear the nice things you say about them to others
  • If you want your eggs hatched, sit on them yourself.
  • If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself
  • If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority
  • If you would abolish avarice, you must abolish its mother, luxury.
  • If your most well known friend is regret, and your most feared enemy desire, then you've lived a life with neither joy nor faith, and maybe change is what you require.
  • Illness tells us what we are
  • Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly
  • Imitation is the sincerest flattery
  • Impertinence is not courage
  • Impossible is the word only to be found in the dictionary of fools
  • In doing evil we injure ourselves and others also
  • In golf as in life it is the follow through that makes the difference.
  • In quarreling truth is always lost
  • In the choice of a wife, a man must please himself, ignoring the opinion and advice of friends
  • In the country of the blind, the one eyed man is the king
  • In the deepest water is the best fishing
  • In the eyes of the youth we see a flame, but in the eyes of the aged we see light
  • In the midst of great joy, do not promise any one anything.  In the midst of great anger, do not answer any one’s letter
  • In the world, good company is difficult to find, and truth is manifest no where
  • In this life there are no punishments and no rewards, we simply suffer or enjoy the consequences of our actions/ choices
  • In this world, there is always danger for those who are afraid of it
  • In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners but all are losers
  • Indecision is expensive, very expensive
  • Individuals are sometimes intelligent but a mob is never never
  • Instead of learning the tricks of the trade, learn the trade.
  • Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors
  • It costs a lot of money to die comfortably
  • It has been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible
  • It has been truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains
  • It is a bad bargain where nobody gains
  • It is a good thing to learn caution by the misfortunes of others
  • It is a great ability to conceal one’s abilities
  • It is a great misfortune neither to have enough wit to talk well nor enough judgment to be silent
  • It is a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children
  • It is best to avoid standing directly between a competitive jerk and his goals
  • It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer
  • It is better to be approximately right than precisely wrong
  • It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today
  • It is better to loose a new jest than an old friend
  • It is better to risk that to delay very much
  • It is better to take food into the mouth than to take worries into the heart
  • It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot
  • It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing
  • It is difficult to make a name, but it is more difficult to retain it
  • It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver
  • It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of god.
  • It is easier to be critical than correct.
  • It is easy to be wise after the event
  • It is easy to see the faults of others but not so easy to see one’s faults
  • It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules a man’s life
  • It is hatred that separates man from man, therefore it is wrong and false
  • It is human nature to hate those whom we have injured
  • It is in the half fools and the half wise that greatest danger lies
  • It is more fun to be overworked than to be under-worked
  • It is not every question that deserves an answer
  • It is not good to wake a sleeping lion
  • It is not that how long you live; but how you live.
  • It is not that they can’t see the solution.  It is that they can’t see the problem
  • It is not the circumstances in which we are placed, but the spirit in which we face them, that constitutes our joy, comfort and peace.
  • It is not the crook in modern business that we fear but the honest man who does not know what he is doing
  • It is only those who never do anything who never make mistakes.
  • It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are
  • It is up to every one to work out his own salvation or damnation
  • It requires more courage to suffer than to die
  • It takes both sunshine and rain to make a rainbow.
  • It takes one to know one.
  • It takes one tree to make 10,000 matches, but one match to burn 10,000 trees.
  • It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear
  • It’s a great satisfaction knowing that for a brief point in time you made a difference.
  • It’s not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while.
  • It’s the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.