Unless Quotes

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not.

Marriage is miserable unless you find the right person that is your soulmate and that takes a lot of looking.

Men have a lot less to write about, unless you're somebody like Tom Waits or John Lennon. And the female voice is much more suited to melody. Men have this barky thing - we're domesticated apes with a microphone.

I'm not all that big on rides. I sort of like bumper cars but I don't really go to Disneyland all that much unless if have nieces and nephews or people to take.

A quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle unless there be two.

You can not do what you want to do unless you know the correct technique. The only other way you can learn how to do it is by doing it yourself, which would take twice as long than if you went to school.

Left to ourselves, we might pick the wrong health insurance, the wrong mortgage, the wrong school for our kids; why, unless they stop us, we might pick the wrong light bulb.

It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.

The infinite in mathematics is alway unruly unless it is properly treated.

Asthma doesn't seem to bother me any more unless I'm around cigars or dogs. The thing that would bother me most would be a dog smoking a cigar.

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.

No change in musical style will survive unless it is accompanied by a change in clothing style. Rock is to dress up to.

Never give a golfer an ultimatum unless you're prepared to lose.

Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?

Humor is very very risky, particularly for a candidate, unless he's been in so long that it just doesn't matter, and he's not running for president. But it's just that people are so sensitive and so touchy, and you're just going to upset somebody without ever realizing it.

I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.

I couldn't go anywhere unless there was a security guard with me. That spoiled my life. It was like being in captivity. Those days are gone, and I don't ever want to see that happen to me again. Now I can wander around the streets of Los Angeles on my own. I like it that way.

In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.

Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.

Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him than all the others.

It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.

Strategic planning is worthless - unless there is first a strategic vision.

Nobody is poor unless he stand in need of justice.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Suffering is not good for the soul, unless it teaches you to stop suffering.

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.

Emotions have no place in business, unless you do business with them.