May Quotes

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

Ah me! why may not love and life be one?

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.

Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.

When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

Love, according to our contemporary poets, is a privilege which two beings confer upon one another, whereby they may mutually cause one another much sorrow over absolutely nothing.

You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd. [Lat., Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises, . . . Epicuri de grege porcum.]

You may be witty, but not satirical.

You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.

I think in the wake of Katrina, the Coast Guard may well have been the only entity or agency that came out of that exercise free of fault and free of blame.

However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.

It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God.

So act that anything you do may become universal law.

That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.

We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

As a stick, when once it is dry and stiff you may break it, but you can never bend it into a straighter posture; so doth the man become incorrigible who is settled and stiffened into vice.

A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.

Never resign. There's always a chance your opponent may drop dead before he mates you.

One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.

Regardless of how hard, challenging, frightening, or difficult an experience may seem, everything is just as it needs to be in order for us to heal, grow, and learn.

We may love money without having it, just as we may have money without loving it.

But if there is one thing clearly and plainly laid down about election, it is this: that elect men and women may be known and distinguished by holy lives.

I may be even more grateful to George Lucas now than I was as a kid.

No matter how brilliant a man may be, he will never engender confidence in his subordinates and associates if he lacks simple honesty and moral courage.

A visionary may see, but a leader must decide.

Faithful heart may have froward tongue.

If you are in an improv jazz ensemble or a small chamber group, you learn to think fast on your feet and how to be flexible and to collaborate and compromise, and that may yield a creative outcome.

The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor.

I think just about everything has been tackled, but it may be that things will be done again, only better and differently.

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.

May we all be faithful in doing the day-to-day, ordinary things that prove our worthiness, for they will lead us to and qualify us for great things.

History ... may be regarded as an artificial extension and : broadening of our memories and may be used to overcome the natural bewilderment of all unfamiliar situations.

Aptitude can show calling, but it isn't the only indicator. Ineptitude or dysfunction may reveal calling more than talent, curiously enough.

I am not caused by my history-my parents, my childhood and development. These are mirrors in which I may catch glimpses of my image.

Life may be given in many ways, and loyalty to truth be sealed as bravely in the closet as the field.

Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, It could have been much better.

I've learned that I can pretty much do anything I've wanted to as long as I was methodical and diligent about it. It may not sound very exciting really, but it works.

As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.