May Quotes

[On John Brown:] The poor wretch is hanged, but from his grave a root of bitterness will spring, the fruit of which at no distant day may be disunion and civil war.

It may be years until the day My dreams will match up with my pay.

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich.

Marriages may come and go, but the game must go on.

When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.

Greater association with the Angels lifts our minds from ourselves and focuses them upon ways and means by which we too may assist in establishing God's Plan.

I'm fighting Miguel Cotto on May 5th because Miss Pac Man is ducking me

Manny Pacquiao I'm calling you out let's fight May 5th and give the world what they want to see. My Jail Sentence was pushed back because the date was locked in. Step up Punk.

Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to sit down and write.

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless, you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

There is nothing respecting which a man may be so long unconscious as of the extent and strength of his prejudices.

A despairing heart is the true prophet of approaching evil; his actions may weave the webs of Fortune, but not break them.

Let all thy joys be as the month of May,And all thy days be as a marriage day.

Though virtue give a ragged livery, she gives a golden cognizance; if her service make thee poor, blush not. Thy poverty may disadvantage thee, but not dishonor thee.

There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. Some may perchance, with strange surprise, Have blundered into Paradise.

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.

Blessed are the poor in spirit." Blessed are they who are stripped of every thing, even of their own wills, that they may no longer belong to themselves.

We may be sure that it is the love of God only that can make us come out of self. If His powerful hand did not sustain us, we should not know how to take the first step in that direction.

We may as well tolerate all religions, since God Himself tolerates all.

He that has patience may compass anything.

Philosophy may raise us above grandeur, but nothing can elevate us above the ennui which accompanies it.

The colors I use may clash or vibrate against one another but this is done intentionally.

Your work may be great and not make its way into the big picture... like Van Gogh... so who's to say what's good and bad?

A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.

As you may know, I have many good friends in the press who, unfortunately, have thus far refused to identify themselves and go public.

There was a scene cut out of Big Fat Liar where I had to wear a dress. This may sound kind of weird, but I really enjoyed shooting that scene.

I may or may not have almost body slammed one of my bandmates for snoring.

The Olympic stadium may have been built only in the early 1970s but it was clear for a long time it had no future. For many reasons it is not good enough for modern football and today's fans.

What are the characteristics of today's world so that one may recognize it by them?" It pays pensions and borrows money: credit and monuments.

Do old people always live in the past? What yesterday was firm and true, may not be so today.

The mission of law is not to oppress persons and plunder them of their property, even thought the law may be acting in a philanthropic spirit. Its mission is to protect property.

That, let us rail at women, scorn and flout 'em, We may live with, but cannot live without 'em.

This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.

I glory in the conflict, that I may hereafter exult in the victory. I know that victory is certain.

If you are psychic you can perceive that someone may love you and they can't show it. Someone may seek to harm you and they mask it.

Today's date, the eighteenth of May, should sometime become an occasion of great international celebration, for on this day ten years ago the first Peace Conference opened at The Hague.

The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! "Uniform" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

Little prigs and three-quarter madmen may have the conceit that the laws of nature are constantly broken for their sakes.

It is I, the ungodly Zarathustra, who says:Who is more ungodly than I, that I may rejoice in his teaching?

The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.

Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.

I did that all the more, if I may say so, because I was aware of the fact that there is an inclination to go to extremes in German people, and in the German character generally.

Human minds are limitless, like space. It may be foolish for a person to even try to deliberately affect another person's mind.

To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.

You may never know when things start to go bad, but when things are worse you know it.