May Quotes

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags."

I am your wife if you will marry me. If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.

It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees.

There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.

My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.

I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.

A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!

Music, the most abstract and uncanny art, is an eternal river of sound moving through time. We can free ourselves from whatever may be holding us back, and join that flowing river.

Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made.

One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.

Don't dwell on what may be. Apply yourself to the task at hand. The Hags of Fate may predict the future, but there is always free will, and that is your saving grace, my dear.

Though a man excels in everything, unless he has been a lover his life is lonely, and he may be likened to a jewelled cup which can contain no wine.

It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.

Truth can be sifted out from falsehood only if the government is vigorously and consistently cross-examined, so that the fundamental issues of the struggle may be clearly defined

A thousand pieces of gold may hardly bring a moment's happiness, but a small favor can cause a lifetime's gratitude. Too much love can turn to enmity, while aloofness can produce joy.

It's lovely to see people so happy.

I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.

…what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst.

…on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries.

Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.

Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, — that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.

I may not be the sharpest tool in the shed, but I'm pretty!

I may not be the favourite candidate of some people within the Republican establishment, but the voters made a decision.

I never enter a new company without the hope that I may discover a friend, perhaps the friend, sitting there with an expectant smile. That hope survives a thousand disappointments.

Give us a genuine Christianity that may provoke persecution, but will not provoke contempt.

She may have had enough time to deal with things. What if she does come back? What will you do?" Grant asked me. What would I do? I'd beg.

My heart may be black but it was still capable of heart failure.

May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands.

It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world.

All really frank people are amusing, and would remain so if they could remember that other people may sometimes want to be frank and amusing too.

I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.

That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.

To all those who lead monotonous lives in the hope that they may experience at second hand the delights and dangers of adventure. [author's dedication]

I want to live so fully in the Spirit that...every act of my life may be an act of worship.

There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission.

Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in any dispensation despise the grace of God, but they cannot extinguish it.

The best crime novels are all based on people keeping secrets. All lying - you may think a lie is harmless, but you put them all together and there's a calamity.

We may seek a fortune for no greater reason than to secure the respect and attention of people who would otherwise look straight through us.

I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.

There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued.

What conservation education must build is an ethical underpinning for land economics and a universal curiosity to understand the land mechanism. Conservation may then follow.

Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction.

In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.

A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind.

The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?

The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.

Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation.

Unless we learn from history, we are destined to repeat it. This is no longer merely an academic exercise, but may contain our worlds fate and our destiny.