May Quotes

Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation.

Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.

Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.

There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.

But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?

One may like the love and despise the lover.

It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

Old fashioned as it may seem to some, it is my duty to serve my country. And I didn't seek this job but I want to do it, and I will do my very best.

Now it may seem so far from where we all are It's something we can't neglect It's something I can't neglect Now won't you give some bread to get the starving fed

We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.

Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.

Who hath none to still him, may weepe out his eyes. [Who hath none to still him, may weep out his eyes.]

You may be on land, yet not in a garden.

Calmness is great advantage; he that lets Another chafe, may warm him at his fire.

Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me, With faith, with hope, with charity, That I may run, rise, rest with Thee.

Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.

A verse may find him, who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice.

Avoid,Profaneness; come not here: Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, Or that which groaneth to be so, May at his peril further go.

Hee that knowes what may bee gained in a day never steales.

Hee that's fed at anothers hand may stay long ere he be full.

Heresie may be easier kept out, then shooke off.

Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.

Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning.

Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.

It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.

The only thing to worry about is the damage that can be done by worrying. Why are some scientists worried? Perhaps because they feel that to stop worrying may mean to stop being paid.

Barack Obama may be black, but John McCain is the first Albino presidential candidate: he's completely see-through!

You may make something you don't think is very important during your lifetime and it'll last for a thousand years.

We must do the thing we must Before the thing we may; We are unfit for any trust Till we can and do obey.

He (God) can be revealed only to the child; perfectly, to the pure child only. All the discipline of the world is to make men children, that God may be revealed to them.

If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

The ideal is the only absolute real; and it must become the real in the individual life as well, however impossible they may count it who never tried it.

One of the grandest things in having rights is, that though they are your rights you may give them up

There is no cheating in nature and the simple unsought feelings of the soul. There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

Two people may be at the same spot in manners and behaviour, and yet one may be getting better, and the other worse, which is the greatest of differences that could possibly exist between them.

Fortify yourself with a flock of friends! There is always at least one who will understand, inspire, and give you the lift you may need at the time.

If you have nothing to do, look at yourself and see if there isn't something close at hand that you can improve. It may make you wealthy, although it is more likely it will make you happy.

A criminal may improve and become a decent member of society. A foreigner cannot improve. Once a foreigner, always a foreigner. There is no way out for him.

We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be?

A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.

A lord may love the men that he commands, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die.

Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.

Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.

You kill men for the wrongs they have done, not the wrongs that they may do someday.

Life is not a song, sweetling. Someday you may learn that, to your sorrow.

There has never been a slave who did not choose to be a slave. Their choice may be between bondage and death, but the choice is always there.

One never knows how much a family may grow; and when a hive is too full, and it is necessary to form a new swarm, each one thinks of carrying away his own honey.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.