May Quotes

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

What doubts, what hypotheses, what labyrinths of amusement, what fields of disputation, what an ocean of false learning, may be avoided by that single notion of immaterialism!

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

On the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.

I hesitate to say what the functions of the modern journalist may be, but I imagine that they do not exclude the intelligent anticipation of the facts even before they occur.

There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question.

As bad as your situation may be, someone else always has it worse than you.

In its happiest efforts, translation is but approximation, and its efforts are not often happy. A translation may be good as translation, but it cannot be an adequate reproduction of the original.

You may bring a horse to the river, but he will drinke when and what he pleaseth.

Give me simplicity, that I may live, So live and like, that I may know Thy ways, Know them and practise them: then shall I give For this poor wreath, give Thee a crown of praise.

Mend your clothes and you may hold out this year.

Doubt may be a poor encouragement to do anything, but it is a bad reason for doing nothing.

Nonbelievers may hear all the notes of science, but without a theistic context and perspective they will not hear the song.

To feed applied science by starving basic science is like economising on the foundations of a building so that it may be built higher. It is only a matter of time before the whole edifice crumbles.

The fact that we have in our head coach, Lone Star Dietz, an Indian, together with several Indian players, has not, as may be suspected, inspired me to select the name Redskins.

Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself

Truth is a jewel which should not be painted over; but it may be set to advantage and shown in a good light.

If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.

A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place - like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.

I may be the only person, the only presidential candidate who never carried the state in which he was born.

May He guide us now. And may God continue to bless the United States of America.

Other Republican candidates may retort to personal attacks and negative ads.

If they are good workmen, they may be from Asia, Africa or Europe; they may be Mahometans, Jews or Christians of any sect, or they may be Atheists.

May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy.

It is human nature to imagine, to put yourself in another's shoes. The past may be another country. But the only passport required is empathy.

One may not reach the dawn save by the path of the night.

I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much; the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death.

The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

What life and death may be to a turkey is not my business; but the soul of Scrooge and the body of Cratchit are my business.

In the Arab mindset, democratization may not be an exclusively negative term. But it's associated closely with American policies and the occupation of Iraq.

We also need to recognize that God may have other plans in store for us, and we must be willing to accept that.

It may be that the most interesting American struggle is the struggle to set oneself free from the limits one is born to, and then to learn something of the value of those limits

You may fail to shine in the opinion of others, both in our conversation and actions, from being superior, as well as inferior to them.

How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.

Since all motives at bottom are selfish and ignoble, we may judge acts and qualities only be their effects.

He who walks may see and understand. You can study all America from one hilltop, if your eyes are open and your mind is willing to reach. But first you must walk to that hill.

Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

The wretch who digs the mine for bread, or ploughs, that others may be fed, feels less fatigued than that decreed to him who cannot think or read.

What the use of P [the significance level] implies, therefore, is that a hypothesis that may be true may be rejected because it has not predicted observable results that have not occurred.

If you can't stand the heat, then move to Minnesota. They have snow in May.

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

We may be living in the twentieth century, in resplendent sophistication. But deep down, most of us find ourselves still in the Stone Age of superstition.

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

When I play, I become entirely absorbed in the game. It may be a form of concentration.

We are always making God our accomplice so that we may legalize our own inequities.

I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.