May Quotes

I may be married to a plastic surgeon, but I'm 98 percent real.

At Dresden on the Elbe, that handsome city, Where straw hats, verses, and cigars are made, They've built (it well may make us feel afraid,) A music club and music warehouse pretty.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

While Thee I seek, protecting Power, Be my vain wishes stilled; And may this consecrated hour With better hopes be filled.

The experiences of the heartless are so limited. It is hate that is blind. Love may miss a flaw here and there, but hate misses beauty everywhere.

I have to create an object which resembles the tree. The sign for a tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.

We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.

Whenever we meet anyone, our first, almost unconscious reaction may be to look for imperfections.

I'm loyal to a fault. I may have learned that from my mother.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.

The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.

The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.

If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the land of infernal fire nevertheless.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.

There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.

A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry.

It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there may be a better way.

Even the idiot may have a message for us

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment.

Deeds not Words: I say so too! And yet I find it somehow true, A word may help a man in need, To nobler act and braver deed.

I'm only wishing to go a-fishing;For this the month of May was made.

Hymns of today that may be sung by people who know the thought of the age...are not afraid that any truth of science will destroy Christianity, or any revolution will overthrow the Kingdom of Heaven.

Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.

The young may die, but the old must!

Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.

And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.

And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.

We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

If you would like to live in a community in which you may have pride, then dedicate yourself in a spirit of humility and your responsibilities in that community.

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.

And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.

It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion.

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.

Dear Grandmamma, with what we give. We humbly pray that you may live. For many, many happy years: Although you bore us all to tears.

You may include things you believe to be crucial in a design, but those elements are often only crucial to you.

I run in Central Park as the sun comes up. Some may mistake it for walking, but I swear I am running. I could not do it without my iPod.

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement.

You may drive out nature with a pitchfork, yet she'll be constantly running back.

Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.