May Quotes
That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.
In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be best answered by asking ourselves another; is there any harm in letting it alone?
Gaming has been resorted to by the affluent as a refuge from ennui. It is a mental dram, and may succeed for a moment; but, like all other stimuli, it produces indirect debility.
That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume.
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.
Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.
Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.
It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original.
Animals manifestly enjoy excitement, and suffer from annul and may exhibit curiosity.
We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.
Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.
Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.
A garden is an awful responsibility. You never know what you may be aiding to grow in it.
A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
Every promise of Scripture is a writing of God, which may be pleaded before Him with this reasonable request, 'Do as Thou hast said.' The Heavenly Father will not break His Word to His own child.
At any rate, cost what it may, to separate ourselves from those who separate themselves from the truth of God is not alone our liberty, but our duty.
By perseverance the snail reached the ark. A mouse may find a hole, be the room ever so full of cats.
Every man who loses everlasting life rejects it himself. God denies it not to him-he will not come that he may have life.
At the end of the day, the Detroiter may be the most important American there is because no one knows better than he that we're all standing at the edge of the shaft.
There is no allurement or enticement, actual or imaginary, which a well-disciplined mind may not surmount. The wish to resist more than half accomplishes the object.
You will receive a body. You may love it or hate it, but it will be yours for the duration of your life on Earth.
You may have read that I went to M.I.T. In 1982 I filled out a Who's Who survey with joking responses, and they never bothered to check the facts.
Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.
Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.
We may learn from children how large a part of our grievances is imaginary. But the pain is just as real.
The best evidence of merit is a cordial recognition of it whenever and wherever it may be found.
My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to acquiesce in what is Thy will.
Intuition is not infallible; it only seems to be the truth. It is a message which we may interpret wrongly.
If you focus on the flaws of others it takes away from the improvements that you may need to make.
It's considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don't see why that's considered a normal thing.
Those who are waiting for an epiphany to strike may wait forever. The artist simply goes to work, making art, both good and not so good.
Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.
While everyone I work with may not share my beliefs, I have been surrounded by nothing but support.
In 15 years from now half of US universities may be in bankruptcy ... in the end I'm excited to see that happen. So pray for Harvard Business School if you wouldn't mind.
We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.
I'd love to do a live record, I'd love to do an acoustic record, I'm already thinking about what I may want to do with the next studio record.
Dogs should be called by names which are not very long, so that each may obey more quickly when he is called, but they should not have shorter names than those which are pronounced in two syllables.
When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.
The virtuous will be sure to speak uprightly; but those whose speech is upright may not be virtuous.
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
There may be men who act without understanding why. I do not. To listen much, pick out the good and follow it; to see much and ponder it: this comes next to understanding.
The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.