19 May Quotes

Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.

Active valour may often be the present of nature; but such patient diligence can be the fruit only of habit and discipline.

The mathematics are distinguished by a particular privilege, that is, in the course of ages, they may always advance and can never recede.

Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.

Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.

The Unhappy may, possibly, by indulging Thought, hit on some lucky Stratagem for the Relief of his Misfortunes, and the Happy may be infinitely more so by contemplating on his Condition.

to know perfect happiness a woman may be a mother, but must be a grandmother.

Who seeketh two strings to one bow, they may shoot strong, but never straight.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

We must hold fast to the truths which we have already received; we must not look with suspicion upon any new light that God may send.

though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence - that they may be true and faithful.

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.

The world may take your reputation from you, but it cannot take your character.

Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.

It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.

One look at love and you may see it weaves a web over mystery, all ravelled threads can rend apart for hope has a place in the lover's heart. Hope has a place in a lover's heart.

The artist... may suppose that ideas are his chief currency; but unless he is also attuned to feelings, in life and in art, he will not move his fellow human beings.

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.

He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in Reality be digging a pit.

You may have a beautiful philosophy, you may have lofty ideals, but what you will do with your philosophy and ideals is dependent entirely upon what you are inside yourself

My advice to actresses is don't worry about your looks. The very thing that makes you unhappy in your appearance may be the one thing to make you a star.

Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own: [I hate a sage who is not wise for himself]

Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.

Courage may be taught as a child us taught to speak.

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize them.

Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years.

An exile, ill in heart and frame,-- A wanderer, weary of the way;-- A stranger, without love's sweet claim On any heart, go where I may!

These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

We may say of agreeableness, as distinct from beauty, that it is a symmetry whose rules are unknown.

We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.

Song like a rose should be; Each rhyme a petal sweet; For fragrance, melody, That when her lips repeat The words, her heart may know What secret makes them so. Love, only Love.

We are thrown back on the text, for the most part. Archaeology can give us background. It doesn't either confirm or disprove the Bible, but it may illuminate it.

Ever since I was old enough to remember my own actions, I realized that when I am passionate about something, I must do it 130%, regardless of what other passions I may already be pursuing.

All safe deposit boxes in banks or financial institutions have been sealed... and may only be opened in the presence of an agent of the I.R.S.

A heart that overflows may seek out merrymaking and boisterous festivities to quietly rejoice, unnoticed amidst the reveling crowds.

Poem in other words may or may not result from inspiration but must (in reader and author alike) produce it--

As something has involuntarily crept into my head through my eyes,I love to indulge it, even though it may be all wrong.

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

I may play some exhibition games so I don't want to quit the game of chess completely. I just decided and it's a firm decision not to play competitive chess anymore.

The worlds originate so that truth may come and dwell therein.

May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy.

I may be rancid butter, but I'm on your side of the bread.