May Quotes
Redundancy of language is never found with deep reflection. Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts.
All in Dali is indeed contrived, a brilliant illustration of his own psyche as he understands it, as opposed to how it truly may have been.
There may be something good in silence. It's a brand new thing. You can hear the funniest little discussions, if you keep turning the volume down. Shut yourself up, and listen out loud.
Well may your heart believe the truths Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.
As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.
Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.
Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.
The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.
A cockle-fish may as soon crowd the ocean into its narrow shell, as vain man ever comprehend the decrees of God!
I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?
Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality.
and there grows in the mind a scent, it may be, of locust blossoms whose perfume is itself a wind moving to lead the mind away.
Terrorism is escalating to the point that Americans soon may have to choose between civil liberties and more intrusive means of protection.
A woman only obliges a man to secrecy, that she may have the pleasure of telling herself.
And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.
England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.
But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre he that runs may read.
But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs, Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.
Strange as it may seem, the most ludicrous lines I ever wrote have been written in the saddest mood.
I believe that when you find love, you hold on to it and cherish it because there is nothing finer and it may never come again.
Mr. Rihani, we met once a thousand years ago and we may not meet again for another thousand years.
I only go to Japan when there's someone who can afford to bring me there, and consequently I may never go again!
One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.
Say what men may, it is doctrine that moves the world. He who takes no position will not sway the human intellect.
No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.
If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.
The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.
Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.
Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism.
Some of the speakers we bring on campus may not reflect official church teaching, but that's how it is.
This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.
When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will
My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good.
I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out.
Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?
And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.
Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee.
Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?