May Quotes

Never insult a writer. You may find yourself immortalized in ways you may not appreciate.

There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.

If you send it halfway around the world before it is eaten, an organic food still may be 'good' for the consumer, but is it 'good' for the food system?

I try to hold both history and wilderness in mind, that my poems may the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times.

What is nonsense, and what is not, then, may be merely a matter of perspective.

Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

May we live like the lotus, at home in muddy water.

Through zeal, knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal, knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow.

May all sentient beings be happy and free of suffering.

If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.

I may never get my own action figure, but at least I think what I'm doing is really legitimate musically

There's no workman, whatsoever he be, That may both work well and hastily.

Purity in body and heart May please some--as for me, I make no boast. For, as you know, no master of a household Has all of his utensils made of gold; Some are wood, and yet they are of use.

Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.

That man is the noblest creature may also be inferred from the fact that no other creature has yet contested this claim.

Prayer is the chief thing that man may present unto God.

Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity.

Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence.

Particular lies may speak a general truth.

Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.

Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm.

Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . .

A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline.

The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory.

You may think that those aeroplanes in this city on 9/11 came out of a clear, blue sky. I believe they emerged out of a swamp of hatred created by us.

It's in the films and songs and all your magazines. It's everywhere that you may go, the devil's radio.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

The great desire of this age is for a doctrine which may serve to condense our knowledge, guide our researches, and shape our lives, so that conduct may really be the consequence of belief

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

Pursue not a victory too far. He hath conquered well that hath made his enemy fly; thou mayest beat him to a desperate resistance, which may ruin thee.

Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.

Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.

Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.

Form may be of more account than substance. A lens of ice will focus a solar beam to a blaze.

So long as there is one pretty girl left on the stage, the professional undertakers may hold up their burial of the theater.

The firmest purpose of a woman's heart to well-timed, artful flattery may yield.

They will pressure you into doing things that may be unsafe, use your good judgment, and remember, 'I would rather be laughed at, than cried for.'

Forgiveness is the giving and so the receiving of life. the latter may be an impulse of a moment of heat; whereas the former is a cold and deliberate choice of the heart.

Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.

One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.

One may not condemn a man for succeeding financially because he knows how. Neither may one with justice take away for a man what he has fairly earned, to give to men of less ability.

So I may not have had a gothic childhood, but childhood makes its own gothicity.

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.

I called gold the ultimate bubble, which means it may go higher. But it’s certainly not safe and it’s not going to last forever.

A sluggish, dawdling, and dilatory man may have spasms of activity, but he never acts continuously and consecutively with energetic quickness.