May Quotes

Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates the fatal destruction, may be a form of redemption.

Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end, you may get a thumb bit off.

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

Philosophy may be dodged, eloquence cannot.

Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.

If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts.

It may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient in strength.

Duplicity is necessary in daily life, in that it covers many unpleasant things from sight, so they may not disturb the pleasure of others.

In all adversity, what God takes away He may give us back with increase.

The world may think it idiotic, Nor care at all we're symbiotic, But I will say at once and twice: I find it nice. I find it nice.

Two paradoxes are better than one they may even suggest a solution.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it.

The world is a stone wall ... and they have put the stones so close together that there is not a single crack through which one may enter.

Wisdom must go with Sympathy, else the emotions will become maudlin and pity may be wasted on a poodle instead of a child-on a field-mouse instead of a human soul.

Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation.

If I'm going to be working out two hours a day, I may as well have a goal... and I'm pretty competitive by nature. A triathlon is a new fun thing.

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

My greatest wish is to write in such a manner that all may think they have written it themselves.

Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.

Influence often isn't noticed until it blossoms later in the garden of someone else's life. Our words and actions may land close to home, or they may be carried far and wide.

When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, "You may regret this," would have been fine.

Thus the races, though alike in their physical response to climate, may possibly be different in their mental response because they have approached America by different paths.

Computers may out think us one day, but as long as people got feelings we'll be better than they are.

What inspires me may not inspire someone else.

I may look like a nice Jewish girl from New Jersey, but inside I'm a 50-year-old, heavyset black man with a big thumb, like Wes Montgomery.

You may be gone but you're never over.

I truly believe I may be getting too big for my own good.

Earthquakes may be brought about because wind is caught up in the earth, so the earth is dislocated in small masses and is continually shaken, and that causes it to sway.

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.

Inherited wealth may be something easily squandered, but inherited poverty is a legacy almost impossible to lose.

Something may have been lost in translation, but it certainly wasn't love

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul

If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact.

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

This may sound funny, but I feel my most beautiful when I'm clean, fresh out of the bath. I don't have to be dressed up. I could be in comfy clothes at home hanging out with my family.

I’ve learned that although our dreams may die, if you open yourself up to life, new ones are born.

For it may safely be said, not that the habit of ready and correct observation will by itself make us useful nurses, but that without it we shall be useless with all our devotion.

To praise great actions with sincerity may be said to be taking part in them.

Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.

Oh! how seldom the soul is silent, in order that God may speak.

So that we may not be like the Athenians, who never consulted except after the event done. [Fr., Afin que ne semblons es Athenians, qui ne consultoient jamais sinon apres le cas faict.]

You may give gifts without caring, but you can't care without giving.

No man can be satisfied with his attainment, although he may be satisfied with his circumstances.

I do not know when it was, nor where it was, nor how young I may have been, but I can recall. . . a sudden feeling of happiness at hearing the voice of the pines.

The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.

The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom, lives in the hearts of humble men.

A design style is defined by a set of microdecisions. A clear style reflects a consistent set. A clear style may not be a good style; a muddled one never is.

Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.

The psychic does not have much to do with channeling. All you are doing is getting information from a source that may or may not be accurate and may or may not have underlying motives.