May Quotes

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

When a place advertises itself as 'World Famous,' you may be sure it isn't.

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

It is always possible that occasional individuals may have overstepped the law and humanity in treatment of criminals and those charged with crime, and if so, they should be severely punished.

Whatever doubt there may be as to the quality or purpose of our free speech we certainly have ample volumes in production.

The answer to our prayer may be the echo of our resolve.

Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves

I'm very proud to know the Koch brothers. This may be a breaking news announcement for the media: I am the Koch brothers' brother from another mother.

It may literally turn out that a Hottentot, an educated and literate Hottentot it is true, but one who is a member of a relatively primitive society, would be able to make bombs.

A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.

If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.

Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.

Men there are, who having quite done with the world, all its merely worldly contents are become so far indifferent, that they carelittle of what mere worldly imprudence they may be guilty.

If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.

We talk of the Turks, and abhor the cannibals; but may not some of them, go to heaven, before some of us?

Whatever has made, or does make, or may make music, should be held sacred as the golden bridle-bit of the Shah of Persia's horse,and the golden hammer, with which his hoofs are shod.

Our institutions have a potent digestion, and may in time convert and assimilate to good all elements thrown in, however originally alien.

Nothing may help or heal While Amor incensed remembers wrong.

By putting the first-person point of view in a naturalistic perspective, I believe that we may genuinely come to understand it for the first time.

One of the great things about my job is I get to do all of these things that I may not experience had I not been an actor.

The things I have are nameless, old and true; they may not be named; few may live and know.

The race may or may not be to the swift, but tell me, is it likely that the fight will be entrusted to the dead?

Lovers may come and go, there was the memory of blood, the low call.

Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have.

While I may not be the youngest candidate in this race, but I will be the youngest woman president in the history of the United States.

Some may have doubted us, but we never doubted each other.

Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied.

Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.

And by the Sacred Parchment, I swear that if I reveal the secrets of The Stonecutters, may my stomach become bloated and my head be plucked of all but three hairs

O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes

A girl fresh from a boarding school may perhaps be a virgin but no! she is never chaste.

The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

Only when one has learned to acknowledge that wiser minds have made better words to come out of our mouths may we truly, then, begin to speak them.

A man may and ought to pride himself more on his will than on his talent.

Equality may be the law, but no human power can install it.

It is not hope but despair that gives us the measure of our ambitions. We may yield secretly to beautiful poems of hope but grief looms start and stripped of all veils.

Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A smile has dried my tears.

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

What may not be altered is made lighter by patience.

The populace may hiss me, but when I go home and think of my money, I applaud myself.

Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.

You may suppress natural propensities by force, but they will be certain to re-appear.

Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

Avoid greatness in a cottage there may be more real happiness than kings or their favourites enjoy.

Catch the opportunity while it lasts, and rely not on what the morrow may bring.

Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.

Even virtue followed beyond reason's rule May stamp the just man knave, the sage a fool.

The mob may hiss me, but I congratulate myself while I contemplate my treasures in their hoard.

Poverty urges us to do and suffer anything that we may escape from it, and so leads us away from virtue.

In a long work sleep may be naturally expected.