May Quotes
It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.
All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.
Conscience is that peculiar faculty of the soul which may be called the religious instinct.
Even happiness itself may become habitual. There is a habit of looking at the bright side of things, and also of looking at the dark side.
Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.
I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.
There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.
May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!
Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius; wits are rarely so, although a man of genius may, amongst other gifts, possess wit, as Shakespeare.
If statistics are any indication, the system may well be allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.
Whatever may be the experience in everyday life, the basci inner Truth should not be forgotten.
Oneness of the Divine. It may be given a thousand names such as The Primary Cause / God / Energy / I. All that is created has its Self this Oneness.
I am all deities in one. You may endeavour your best for thousands of years and have all mankind with you in your search. But you cannot understand My Reality.
For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.
Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.
It is a world of mischief that may be done by a single example of avarice or luxury. One voluptuous palate makes many more.
However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
People should be highly sceptical of anyone's including their own, ability to predict the future, and instead pursue strategies that can survive whatever may occur.
In the second century A.D. the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius may have best defined pantheism when he wrote, “Everything is interwoven, and the web is holy.
We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlords.
A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.
Yep, my daddy was an undependable drunk. But he'd never missed any of my organized games, concerts, plays, or picnics. He may not have loved me perfectly, but he loved me as well as he could. (189)
We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences.
Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.
Only when you understand people, they may understand you. So even though you do not say anything, if you understand people there is some communication.
It may be that other developers are finding that their games play better on one platform over the other, so they're choosing to migrate to that platform.
In the last analysis the entire field of psychology may reduce to biological electrochemistry.
We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.
Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.
Respect, of course is a tricky term. I may respect your gardening by just letting you get on with it. Or, I may respect it by admiring it and regarding it as a superior way to garden.
There is a difference between offering a service and being willing to serve. They may both include giving but only one is generous.
Leaders may inspire, but only when the people decide to act does the leader's vision become a movement.
A vicious teacher is just a vicious teacher, as a vicious neighbor may happen to be. But a vicious mother - means that the whole world is vicious.
...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.
Curiously, neither God nor the devil may wear modern dress, but must retain Grecian vestments.
Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.
We may conceive an hope that the next generation will in tongue and heart and every way else become English; so as there will be no difference or distinction but the Irish sea betwixt us.
America may be the only society on earth to have experienced what has been called an 'epidemic of children killing children,' which is ravaging some of its communities today.
Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one.
If I can assign names as well as pictures to objects, the right assignment of them we may call truth, and the wrong assignment of them falsehood.
If I go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law because you would have alternative ways to defend.
And if my present deeds are foolish in thy sight, it may be that a foolish judge arraigns my folly.
People who plead with you for favours May eventually prove to be great flatterers. Your friends are only those Who all the time cheerfully support Your heart's aspiration-flames.
You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.