Mark Twain Ifs Quotations

You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would.

If the metrics you are looking at aren't useful in optimizing your strategy - stop looking at them.

If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again.

If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.

If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.

If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead.

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out.

If you want to change the future, you must change what you're doing in the present.

If I had more time, I would have written less.

Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you.

Ah, if he could only die temporarily!

If you don't know how to pronounce a word, say it loudly. Do not compound mispronunciation with inaudibility

If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

If horses knew their strength we should not ride anymore.

If you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.

There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it.

And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.