--- title: "10 Ifs Quotes By Hugh Hefner" description: "10 Ifs quotes by Hugh Hefner. Plus more from Hugh Hefner and more Ifs sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64c/hugh-hefner-2102_bittersweet_life-is-bittersweet-inside-our-heads-if_2181292.png" --- > [Life is bittersweet. Inside our heads, if we're lucky, we're the same kids as we were when we were young.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/life-is-bittersweet-inside-our-heads-if-we-re-lucky-we-re-the-same/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64c/hugh-hefner-2102_bittersweet_life-is-bittersweet-inside-our-heads-if_2181292.png) > [I truly believe that age - if you're healthy - age is just a number.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/i-truly-believe-that-age-if-you-re-healthy-age-is-just-a-number/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7a6/hugh-hefner-2102_age_i-truly-believe-that-age-if-you-re-healt_2044286.png) > [If it was wrong to persecute heterosexuals in a homosexual society then the reverse was wrong, too.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/if-it-was-wrong-to-persecute-heterosexuals-in-a-homosexual-society/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c80/hugh-hefner-2102_homosexual_if-it-was-wrong-to-persecute-heterosexua_1053802.png) > [I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/i-think-age-if-you-are-healthy-i-think-age-is-largely-a-number-my/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/648/hugh-hefner-2102_age_i-think-age-if-you-are-healthy-i-think-a_153118.png) > [I think that there's nothing wrong with masturbation. If you're not feeling good about your own sexuality and your own body, you're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/i-think-that-there-s-nothing-wrong-with-masturbation-if-you-re-not/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5f3/hugh-hefner-2102_body_i-think-that-there-s-nothing-wrong-with_2355465.png) > [One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/one-of-the-sad-things-i-think-about-the-younger-generation-quite/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/573/hugh-hefner-2102_generation_one-of-the-sad-things-i-think-about-the_355972.png) > [If Playboy ever loses its editorial balls, then it will deserve to be knocked over by a younger, more vigorous magazine in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/if-playboy-ever-loses-its-editorial-balls-then-it-will-deserve-to-be/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/72e/hugh-hefner-2102_alive_if-playboy-ever-loses-its-editorial-ball_2092506.png) > [I urge one and all to live this life as if there is no reward in the afterlife and to do it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/i-urge-one-and-all-to-live-this-life-as-if-there-is-no-reward-in-the/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8e/hugh-hefner-2102_afterlife_i-urge-one-and-all-to-live-this-life-as_337460.png) > [The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous. Women are sex objects. If women weren't sex objects, there wouldn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/the-notion-that-playboy-turns-women-into-sex-objects-is-ridiculous/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a4/hugh-hefner-2102_attraction_the-notion-that-playboy-turns-women-into_882126.png) > [If you don't encourage healthy sexual expression in public, you get unhealthy sexual expression in private. If you attempt to suppress sex…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/if-you-don-t-encourage-healthy-sexual-expression-in-public-you-get/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ba/hugh-hefner-2102_book_if-you-don-t-encourage-healthy-sexual-ex_739824.jpg) ## Other authors on Ifs ## More by Hugh Hefner > [My life is an open book. With illustrations.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/my-life-is-an-open-book-with-illustrations/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/the-difference-between-marilyn-monroe-and-the-early-pamela-anderson/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [If I ever try to get married again, shoot me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/if-i-ever-try-to-get-married-again-shoot-me/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [The people who had the most impact on me when I was young were Freud and Darwin, but growing up I also had my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/the-people-who-had-the-most-impact-on-me-when-i-was-young-were-freud/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [Part of the sexual revolution is bringing rationality to sexuality - because when you don't embrace sexuality in a normal way, you get the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/part-of-the-sexual-revolution-is-bringing-rationality-to-sexuality/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [After world war all we got was a lot of conformity, and conservatism and when I was in college at the university of Illinois…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/after-world-war-all-we-got-was-a-lot-of-conformity-and-conservatism/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/i-was-writing-and-cartooning-and-writing-short-stories-from-grade/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [At a very early age I started a cartoon scrapbook, actually when I was in high school. And it became, in turn, a scrapbook…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/at-a-very-early-age-i-started-a-cartoon-scrapbook-actually-when-i-was/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm planning on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/i-think-age-if-you-are-healthy-i-think-age-is-largely-a-number-my/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/the-whole-1950s-notion-was-find-the-right-girl-get-married-move-to/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/you-stay-in-touch-with-the-boy-who-dreamed-impossible-dreams/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [I'm bored of the hanky-panky. I'm still active, but it's different, I like to play dominoes with my girlfriends. Having three beautiful women keeps…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/i-m-bored-of-the-hanky-panky-i-m-still-active-but-it-s-different-i/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [The notion that Playboy exploited women, because we showed them in beautiful photographs, sexually oriented, strikes me as rather bizarre.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/the-notion-that-playboy-exploited-women-because-we-showed-them-in/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/living-in-the-moment-thinking-about-the-future-and-staying-connected/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) > [I was very influenced by the musicals and romantic comedies of the 1930s. I admired Gene Harlow and such, which probably explains why, since…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hugh-hefner/i-was-very-influenced-by-the-musicals-and-romantic-comedies-of-the/) [Hugh Hefner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hugh-hefner/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ifs/hugh-hefner/#itemlist", "name": "10 Ifs Quotes By Hugh Hefner", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Life is bittersweet. 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