May Quotes
As is true with respect to other great evils, the measures by which war might be made altogether impossible for the future may well be worse than even war itself.
Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.
When you're old you feast on your memories, and if you spend too much time on exercise, you may get old and not have many.
Though thousand times a thousand in battle one may conquer, yet should one conquer just oneself, one is the greatest conqueror.
If you have done good, set your mind upon it so that it may be repeated over and over again. Allow yourself to be pleased by good. Accumulating good is joyful.
Who calls a lawyer rogue, may find, too lateUpon one of these depends his whole estate.
Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.
In England the boy pats his adored one on the back and says softly, "I don't object, you know." If he is quite mad with passion, he may add: "I rather fancy you, in fact.
When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.
Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.
As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.
My ardent desire is... to keep the United States free from political connexions with every other Country. To see that they may be independent of all, and under the influence of none.
If you do not understand what God's present claims over you are, you may depend upon it that as days of testing come on you will not be able to keep your footing.
My friends call me George, GM, or Georgia. But most people who know me from when I was little call me Georgia May.
If you want to get into a good entrepreneurial business, guillotines may be in fashion.
Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.
Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.
A modern man may disapprove of some of his sweeping reforms, and approve others; but finds it difficult not to admire even where he does not approve.
No sceptical philosopher can ask any questions that may not equally be asked by a tired child on a hot afternoon.
You must always remember, because the mediocre mind you encounter may be your own.
The Treorchy Male Choir - the very name is a song! May I thank the Choir, past and present, for all the glorious music-making they have shared with us.
If there is any bad feeling I hope it's against me and not my players - I may put my tin helmet on without them seeing!
Somebody has to keep score and I decided I was going to do it. I'm a born score-keeper and I realize, like an umpire, that my decisions may cause distress.
Your enemy is still yourself. You don't have enemies. They may be self-styled. I have plenty of self-styled enemies. I don't wish them harm.
An autobiography is only 'a sort of life' - it may contain less errors of fact than a biography, but it is of necessity even more selective: it begins later and it ends prematurely.
May liberal men abound with us! May our knowledge of the Vedas and our progeny increase! May faith not forsake us! May we have much to give to the needy.
What good is any feeling we may have about ourselves, if it only lasts as long as others agree to it?
Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate.
What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor
Being a great athlete is something that requires a lot of training and dedication, it does not come as easily as some people may think.
The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an absorbing one someone will listen.
It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.
Time is so fleeting that if we do not remember God in our youth, age may find us incapable of thinking of him.
Develop your Intuition so that the changes in the years to come may be convenient for you.
A man may truly live in his dreams, his noblest dreams, but only, only if he is worthy of those dreams.
If you let the image of the messenger get in the way of whatever message there may be, however large or small, that's your problem, not his.
There are some current 'theories' that, when divested of begged questions, reduce to the non-controversial statement, 'Here are some facts and there may be some relation between them.'