May Quotes
It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.
No matter in what land we may dwell the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ makes us brothers and sisters, interested in each other, eager to understand and know each other.
The revenge of an elder sister may be long in coming, but, like a South-Eastern express, it arrives in its own good time.
Sweet May lies fresh before us, To life the young flowers leap, And through the Heaven's blue o'er us The rosy cloudlets sweep.
Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the very young but never their actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.
I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.
When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.
I think only a superb news or reportage picture could move me. Other photographs may leave a strong impression on me, but they don't move me.
Put personal ambition away from you, and then you will find consolation in living or in dying, whatever may happen to you.
At bottom there is but one subject of study: the forms and metamorphoses of mind. All other subjects may be reduced to that; all other studies bring us back to this study.
The soul may be immortal because she is fitted to rise towards that which is neither born nor dies, towards that which exists substantially, necessarily, invariably, that is to say towards God.
History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.
Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.
For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever.
What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.
I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.
There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.
You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.
A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.
Be as the sailor who keeps the polestar in his eye. By so doing we may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we will maintain a true course.
Is it not possible that an individual may be right and a government wrong? Are laws to be enforced simply because they were made? Or declared by any number of men to be good, if they are NOT good?
There is something servile in the habit of seeking after a law which we may obey. We may study the laws of matter at and for our convenience, but a successful life knows no law.
It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.
I trust that some may be as near and dear to Buddha, or Christ, or Swedenborg, who are without the pale of their churches.
I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.
Ex oriente lux may still be the motto of scholars, for the Western world has not yet derived from the East all the light which itis destined to receive thence.
One may almost doubt if the wisest man has learned anything of absolute value by living.
Why do you ever mend your clothes, unless that, wearing them, you may mend your ways. Let us sing.
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.
The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.
For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?
As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.
Don't spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fight for.
The sea, vast and wild as it is, bears thus the waste and wrecks of human art to its remotest shore. There is no telling what it may not vomit up.
The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.
They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.
Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and damp ? are they not as rich experience as warmth and dryness?
Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.
You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.
He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country.
Where there is not discernment, the behavior even of the purest soul may in effect amount to coarseness.
A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.
In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.
