May Quotes

A life all turbulence and noise may seem To him that leads it wise and to be praised, But wisdom is a pearl with most success Sought in still waters.

Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase By eating, and it fears to starve, unless It still may feed, and all it sees devour; Ambition is not tir'd with toll nor cloy'd with power.

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life

Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.

There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body; but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty.

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

The regular hours necessary to be observed by those who follow country business, are perhaps of more consequence than any of the other articles, however important those may be.

ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery.

If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable parts of the earth.

We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.

Human life may be regarded as a succession of frontispieces. The way to be satisfied is never to look back.

Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them are the growth of taste and knowledge.

It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.

The fear of punishment may be necessary to the suppression of vice; but it also suspends the finer motives of virtue.

We may be willing to tell a story twice, never to hear it more than once.

John Jones may be described as 'one of the has beens'.

Whatever may be God's future, we cannot forget His past.

Paradoxical as it may at first appear, the fact is that, as W. H. George has said, scientific research is an art, not a science.

The light may be fading on the 20th century, but the sun is still rising on America.

I may not have been the greatest president, but I've had the most fun eight years.

Downsizing budgets may be necessary, but downsizing dreams is a decision to be disappointed.

A parent may be without a job, but no child should be without a doctor.

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.

Marvelous as may be the power of my dog to understand my moods, deathless as his affection and fidelity, his mental state is as unsolved a mystery to me as it was to my remotest ancestor.

Mental fire is what won't burn real sticks; mental water is what won't necessarily (though of course it may) put out even a mentalfire.

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world's life

If any one phrase could gather its (religion's) universal message, that phrase would be, - All is not vanity in this Universe, whatever the appearances may suggest.

The most any one can do is to confess as candidly as he can the grounds for the faith that is in him, and leave his example to work on others as it may.

The war-function has grasped us so far; but the constructive interests may some day seem no less imperative, and impose on the individual a hardly lighter burden.

Any object not interesting in itself may become interesting through becoming associated with an object in which an interest already exists.

Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.

The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.

Men are now proud of belonging to a conquering nation, and without a murmur they lay down their persons and their wealth, if by so doing they may fend off subjection.

In modern eyes, precious though wars may be they must not be waged solely for the sake of the ideal harvest. Only when forced upon one, is a war now thought permissible.

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.

We have our thoughts, our hopes, our fears, and yet we know that in a moment a change may come over any one of us that will convert a living, breathing human being into a mass of lifeless clay.

No matter through what realms of the fantastic you may travel, you arrive inevitably at the commonplace.

I like carrots that have got a bit of personality and have three or four legs! They may look weird but they taste fantastic.

We may justly condemn ourselves as the greatest sinners we know because we know more of the folly of our own heart than we do of other people's.

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

Perhaps there cannot be a better way of judging of what manner of spirit we are of, than to see whether the actions of our life are such as we may safely commend them to God in our prayers.

Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.

What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he not make others suffer, so that he may ease his selfish heart?

What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?

There is nothing like a start, and being born, however pessimistic one may become in later years, is undeniably a start.

Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.

We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.

Forgetfulness of grief I yet may gain;In some wise may come ending to my pain;It may be yet the Gods will have me glad!Yet, Love, I would that thee and pain I had!

Emotion may be expressed, or the utter lack of it may be expressed, but the only important fact is that of expression.