May Quotes

Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.

He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army.

Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good.

Iraq may still have a decent outcome...but even if it becomes Switzerland, we overpaid for it.

That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,- Creation's blot, creation's blank.

We frolic while 'tis May.

Of love it may be said, the less earthly the less demonstrative. In its absolutely indestructible form it reaches a profundity in which all exhibition of itself is painful.

And your dinner for the orchestra officials." "Haven't you ever had people coming over and no time to shop? You have to make do with what's in the fridge, Clarice. May I call you Clarice?

Corporations are may lesser commonwealths in the bowels of a greater, like worms in the entrails of a natural man.

For seeing life is but a motion of Limbs... why may we not say, that all Automata (Engines that move themselves by springs and wheels as doth a watch) have an artificial life?

Christian Kings may erre in deducing a Consequence, but who shall Judge?

Lives of great men oft remind us as we o'er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us - Letters that we ought to burn.

For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat

People may talk about intellectual teaching, but what we principally want is the moral teaching.

The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.

Whatever evil voices may rage, Science, secure among the powers that are eternal, will do her work and be blessed.

Though under-instruction is a bad thing, it is not impossible that over-instruction may be worse.

Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket what is inside the bundle.

Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne for a while by violence, military, civil, or ecclesiastical.

The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained.

Books may be classed from the Faculties of the mind

Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country

Though [the people] may acquiesce, they cannot approve what they do not understand.

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.

The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.

I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.

Old heads as well as young may sometimes be charged with ignorance and presumption. The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.

I sincerely pray that all the members of the human family may, in the time prescribed by the Father of us all, find themselves securely established in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and happiness.

Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of their aim.

...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless.

Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.

for the present we may groupe the sciences into Professorships as follows, subject however to be changed according to the qualifications of the persons we may be able to engage.

The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws, and where every man may read them for himself.

None of us is perfect, but the point of our writing is to try to become better, to learn something that we may not have already realized, about ourselves, about the world we inhabit.

In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.

The servant may not look to be in better case than his master.

I may boldly speak In right, though proud oppression will not hear me!

Every Tory is a coward; for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave.

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

It may perhaps be said that it signifies nothing to a man what is done to him after he is dead; but it signifies much to the living; it either tortures their feelings or hardens their hearts.

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.

You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.

May we give as the Savior gave. To give of oneself is a holy gift. We give as a remembrance of all the Savior has given.

May we be faithful followers of Christ, examples of righteousness, thus becoming lights in the world.

As the Christmas season envelops us with all its glory, may we, as did the Wise Men, seek a bright, particular star to guide us in our celebration of the Savior’s birth.