May Quotes
I think I will always stay involved in tennis and would like to give back by helping out young players. I have done a little commentary and may one day enjoy doing that again.
Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.
Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.
Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.
There is a photographer in every bush, going about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour.
People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.
So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but by the forbearance of some immediate gratification.
Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection.
A thousand years may elapse before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope.
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration, and all those arts by which a big book is made.
The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.
Most vices may be committed very genteelly: a man may debauch his friend's wife genteelly: he may cheat at cards genteelly
Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.
Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob.
Shakespeare never had six lines together without a fault. Perhaps you may find seven, but this does not refute my general assertion.
Never speak of a man in his own presence. It is always indelicate, and may be offensive .
There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.
Peevishness may be considered the canker of life, that destroys its vigor and checks its improvement; that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot consume.
Pendantry is the unseasonable ostentation of learning. It may be discovered either in the choice of a subject or in the manner d treating it.
I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.
It was said of Euripides, that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare, that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.
You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.
There may be other reasons for a man's not speaking in publick than want of resolution: he may have nothing to say.
Pointed axioms and acute replies fly loose about the world, and are assigned successively to those whom it may be the fashion to celebrate.
It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.
There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
Of many, imagined blessings it may be doubted whether he that wants or possesses them had more reason to be satisfied with his lot.
We may have many acquaintances, but we can have but few friends; this made Aristotle say that he that hath many friends hath none.
He that accepts protection, stipulates obedience. We have always protected the Americans; we may therefore subject them to government.
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into the short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
A merchant may, perhaps, be a man of an enlarged mind, but there is nothing in trade connected with an enlarged mind.
From all our observations we may collect with certainty, that misery is the lot of man, but cannot discover in what particular condition it will find most alleviations.
It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and beautiful elegy upon another.
Also remember that in any man's dark hour, a pat on the back and an earnest handclasp may work a small miracle.
Clouds out of control decoct anticipation. What use can any of us have for two moons? The miracle of order has run out and I am left in an unmiraculous city where anything may happen.
There is a good and a bad light in which every thing that befalls us may be taken. If the human mind will busy itself to make theworst of every disagreeable occurrence, it will never want woe.
Marry first, and love will come after is a shocking assertion; since a thousand things may happen to make the state but barely tolerable, when it is entered into with mutual affection.
I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.
There is nothing left to us but to see how we may be approved of Him, and how we may roll the weight of our weak souls in well-doing upon Him, who is God omnipotent.
