May Quotes

Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.

A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.

It is said that some Western steamers can run on a heavy dew, whence we can imagine what a canoe may do.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.

Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.

Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.

We are a nation of politicians, concerned about the outmost defenses only of freedom. It is our children's children who may perchance be really free.

Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.

All health and success does me good, however far off and withdrawn it may appear; all disease and failure helps to make me sad anddoes me evil, however much sympathy it may have with me or I with it.

However exquisitely human nature may have been described by writers, the true practical system can be learned only in the world.

Life may as properly be called an art as any other.

Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love.

Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adopt the vices of its objects.

Heroes, notwithstanding the high ideas which, by the means of flatterers, they may entertain of themselves, or the world may conceive of them, have certainly more of mortal than divine about them.

Who stops learning may be old.

We want to get full value out of labour so that we may be able to pay it full value. It is use - not conservation - that interests us.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

Autobiography may be the preeminent kind of American expression.

When the day of misfortune comes and (comes it must sooner or later to all )we may be prepared with Christian fortitude to endure the shock.

My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be.

We must begin to understand the nature of intertextuality . . . the manner by which texts poems and novels respond to other texts. After all, all cats may be black at night, but not to other cats.

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles

France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men.

Greece is the home of the gods; they may have died but their presence still makes itself felt. The gods were of human proportion: they were created out of the human spirit.

The great laws of the moral world do not vary, however different, under different dispensations, may be the authoritative enunciation of truth, or the means of propagating and defending it.

We may rightly shrink from saying that any given individual is certainly so unfaithful to light and grace as to incur the eternal loss of God, we do know that many are so. God knows who they are.

The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers: They call it 'easing the Spring.'

As miserable as life may be I hold it pretty precious

'Duck Dynasty' is a ridiculous show, and long may it wave. America and democracy will endure. They've seen a lot worse.

Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws.

Whenever a man boasts much about [his common sense], you may be pretty sure that he has very little sense, either common or uncommon.

Like water spilt upon the ground--alas, Our little lives flow swiftly on and pass; Yet may they bring rich harvests and green grass!

We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps.

One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.

A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow.

I beseech you to correct one fault - severe speech of others; never speak evil of any man, no matter what the facts may be.

Indifference in religion is more fatal than skepticism. There is no pulse in indifference; skepticism may have warm blood.

If you have only two or three things that you can enjoy and they are things which time and decay may remove from you, what are you going to do in old age?

His nature is such that our often coming does not tire him. The whole burden of the whole life of every man may be rolled on to God and not weary him, though it has wearied man.

Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form.

The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.

Weak minds may be injured by novel-reading; but sensible people find both amusement and instruction therein.

Flowers may beckon todwards us, but they speak todward heaven and God.

When leisure is a selfish luxury, its very activity, when it stirs, is apt to be only a kind of indolence taking exercise, that it may the better digest its selfishness.

He that lives by the sight of the eye may grow blind.

People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.