May Quotes

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

The letter e may now no longer be used to denote anything other than this positive universal constant.

Joy may you have and gentle hearts content Of your loves couplement: And let faire Venus, that is Queene of love, With her heart-quelling Sonne upon you smile

[W]e are prone to forget that the planet may be measured by man, but not according to man.

You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.

In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

The revolution of ages may bring round the same calamities; but ages may revolve without producing a Tacitus to describe them.

The ideal Government minister may well be someone who has no itch to run other people's lives.

Whatever may be our condition in life, it is better to lay hold of its advantages than to count its evils.

The future may require not so much having a new idea as stopping having an old idea.

What people need and what they want may be very different.... Teachers are those who educate the people to appreciate the things they need.

A person may be very secretive and yet have no secrets.

If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought for yourself, I have indeed added to your stature.

the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do.

...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.

Habit, of which passion must be wary, may all the same be the sweetest part of love.

[On sociability in Italy:] You may be a hermit or an innkeeper.

Love is the centre and circumference; The cause and aim of all things--'tis the key To joy and sorrow, and the recompense For all the ills that have been, or may be.

It is a religious duty for those who cook to learn how to prepare food in different ways, hygienically, for the table, so that it may be eaten with enjoyment.

All it takes to become an Artist is to start doing Art. By living a life full of Art, we may achieve an Artful life.

I could promise that I'll always be true to you, but we may not live to be so old.

Mastering is your last chance to fix or address any issues that you may have before giving birth to this beautiful baby album or track.

There may be wonder in money, but, dear God, there is money in wonder.

Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.

Art and business may be strange bedfellows, but an artist must make room in her bed for both.

The Scripture stories do not, like Homer’s, court our favor, they do not flatter us that they may please us and enchant us—they seek to subject us, and if we refuse to be subjected we are rebels.

If I am attached to another person because I cannot stand on my own two feet, he or she may be a life saver, but the relationship is not one of love.

May you find good hunting, swift running, and shelter when you sleep. (Leafpool to Ashfur, page 1)

You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.

Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.

May he die with no joy at his end, The man who won't be troubled To unlock the keys of his heart and make a friend.

From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.

A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not.

Ambiguity lurks in generality, and may thus become an instrument of severity.

In New York, people are very overbooked.You say, When do you want to have dinner? It's May. They say, What about October? And then they complain: Oh you can't believe how booked up I am.

The really happy man never laughs - seldom - though he may smile. He does not need to laugh, for laughter, like weeping is a relief of mental tension - and the happy are not over strung.

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.

A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.

However we may conceal our passions under the veil ... there is always some place where they peep out.

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

Gratitude is like the good faith of traders: it maintains commerce, and we often pay, not because it is just to discharge our debts, but that we may more readily find people to trust us.

Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.

A man's wits are better employed in bearing up under the misfortunes that lie upon him at present than in foreseeing those that may come upon him hereafter.

No one ever has time to examine himself honestly, and most people look no further than their neighbors' eyes, in which they may see their own reflection.

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin.