May Quotes

If a favour is asked of you, grant it if you can. If not, refuse it in such a manner as that one denial may be sufficient.

The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.

If your friend's friend's friend (whom you may not have even met) is obese, a smoker or a zealot of some kind then it is a lot more likely that you will be too.

[Property] embraces everything to which a man may attach a value and have a right.

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial, but if ever I should, it will be then known how far I can reduce to practice, principles, which I know to be founded in truth.

I think it may be even a bigger story than the internet. You know, it's like saying, 'how big a deal is the internet?' The Chinese middle-class is going to change the world.

The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.

'T is heaven alone that is given away; 'T is only God may be had for the asking.

The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy.

Death is a dramatic accomplishment of absence; language may be almost as effective.

Life is like a cup of coffee or tea. No matter how bitter it may be, it is always enjoyable.

People may claim to hate puns, but most true word lovers have groaned to like them.

Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.

No matter how flawed someone else may be, that doesn't give us the right to be less than we are, does it? We are decent people and we repay our debts.

There may be guilt when there is too much virtue.

Some must cry so that others may be able to laugh the more heartily. Sacrifices are necessary.

We all have common emotions. And, and our experiences may not be all common but the emotions sure are.

You may be a redneck if . . . you think you are an entrepreneur because of the "Dirt for Sale" sign in the front yard.

If you just read Leviticus on the surface, you may think it's just a bunch of grumpy irrelevant rules; but, it's actually the way God gave his people access to himself.

Without discretion, people may be overlaid with unreasonable affection, and choked with too much nourishment.

But if you have no relationship with the living things on this earth, you may lose whatever relationship you have with humanity.

There is no end to relationship. There may be the end of a particular relationship, but relationship can never end; to be is to be related.

Love may be the ultimate solution to all man's difficulties, problems and travails.

I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now.

I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever.

I may be middle class, but I'm hard. 'Al dente', you could say.

[Responding to trick query about whether she believed herself in a state of grace:] If I am not, may it please God to bring me into it; if I am, may He preserve me in it.

An economy may be in equilibrium from a short-period point of view and yet contain within itself incompatibilities that are soon going to knock it out of equilibrium.

Cultural stupidity accounts for virtually every aspect of Sarah Palin, both as a person and a political icon. Which, come to think of it, may be a pretty good reason not to misunderstimate her.

This [Judge Samuel Alito] may be one of the most significant or consequential nominations that the Senate will vote on since I've been here in the last three decades.

Learning what you don't want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do.

Stones of judgment, discouragement or doubt may be thrown at you. You can't stop them, but you can make the choice to keep your walls up and not let them affect you.

Your idea may not be exactly God's idea, but I can promise you this: God's way will be better than your way.

Barbarisation may be defined as a cultural process whereby an attained condition of high value is gradually overrun and supersededby elements of lower quality.

Indolent people, whatever taste they may have for society, seek eagerly for pleasure, and find nothing. They have an empty head and seared hearts.

A good name will wear out; a bad one may be turned; a nickname lasts forever.

I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on this house, and on ALL that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!

I may be gone, but Rock and Roll lives on.

The Church of Christ is an anvil which has worn out many hammers. Our opponents may boast of their strength, but they do not realize what they have challenged.

The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.

When we come to a comparison of heaven and earth, then we may indeed not only forget all about the present life, but even despise and scorn it.

The success of an entire advertising campaign may stand or fall on what is said in the headlines of the individual advertisements.

A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ.

Do not listen to the killjoys who tell you never to eat oysters in months that do not contain the letter R: May, June, July, August, Octoba. You know.

It's quite a dangerous career move to go wilfully on making films that may not find a distributor.

The stories we love may not always fit neatly into a single time line, but they will always matter.

Empathy for the plight of the Goddess may be essential in seeing how to face our own plight on Earth.