May Quotes
I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool.
For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have.
O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.
Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?
Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning.
They may seize On the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand And steal immortal blessing from her lips, Who, even in pure and vestal modesty, Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin.
I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use; or, if sterling, may require good management to make it serve the purposes of sense or happiness.
Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty.
Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.
It may safely be asserted that the art of war will soon be reduced to a simple question of expenditure and credit, and that the largest purse will be the strongest arm.
Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of internal industry and foreign negotiation.
The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food. Artistic genius is an expansion of monkey imitativeness.
Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.
Advertising is our printed salesman. It may not be pretty, but it has to be true.
To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.
In the voice of mirth there may be excitement, but in the tones of mourning there is consolation.
As an individual becomes aware of subliminal phenomena, the shock may cause him some initial physical or emotional discomfort - possibly even concern over his sanity.
It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.
You may not have a physical impairment, but you have things, whether it's finances, self-esteem, it doesn't matter. It's cut from the same cloth.
Henceforth, the United States may have to determine how to cope with regional coalitions that seek to push America out of Eurasia, thereby threatening America's status as a global power.
May my haters live very long to see my continued success and make their lives miserable.
Those who live simply are often pure, while those who live luxuriously may be slavish and servile. It seems that the will is clarified by plainness, while conduct is ruined by indulgence.
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. It is a seeking that he who wishes may know the cosmic secrets of the world and they that dwell therein.
Ingeniously, capitalism discovered that the economy may be moved not by satisfying existing needs, but by creating new ones.
It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.
…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.
Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
The sharecropper may lower his eyes, but not because he's less of a man. That's just a condition of society that such things exist.
I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in.
It's nice to be a part of history but people should get it right. I may not be perfect, but I'm bloody close.
The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.
The second somebody dies somebody else is born People are celebrating while other people morn Home may be home to you but to me it's foreign Even the matador don't pull the bull by the horns
Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
Father, may my song today be a sweet sound in Your ears-even if in Yours alone. Amen.
Indeed, better risk management may be the only truly necessary element of success in banking.
The individual may be understood as one particular focal point at which the whole universe expresses itself - as an incarnation of the self, or of the Godhead, or whatever one may choose to call it.
The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.
It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets.