May Quotes
To understand at all what life means, one must begin with Christian belief. And I think knowledge may be sorrow with a man unless he loves.
Night by night I will lie down and sleep in the thought of God, and in the thought, too, that my waking may be in the bosom of the Father; and some time it will be, so I trust.
Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.
Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I! Freely welcome to my cup, Could'st thou sip and sip it up; Make the most of life you may; Life is short and wears away.
Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing.
He who gives to the poor, lends to the Lord. But it may be said, not improperly, the Lord lends to us to give to the poor.
There is a troublesome humor some men have, that if they may not lead, they will not follow; but had rather a thing were never done, than not done their own way, tho' other ways very desirable.
Wherefore, brethren, let us be careful neither to out-go our guide, nor yet loiter behind him; since he that makes haste, may miss his way, and he that stays behind, lose his guide.
If we are but sure the end is right, we are too apt to gallop over all bounds to compass it; not considering the lawful ends may be very unlawfully attained.
This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal
In examining the potential of individuals, we must focus on their strengths and not just their mistakes. We cannot be limited by what they may have spilled in the kitchen.
The country with a low birth rate and low death rate will be hardest hit - and so the poor may indeed inherit the earth, because they're healthier.
Truth is used to vitalize a statement rather than devitalize it. Truth implies more than a simple statement of fact. "I don't have any whiskey," may be a fact but it is not a truth.
Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security.
Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.
Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,?which is an excellent thing.
Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so, Not what is dangerous present, but the los Of what is past.
See the minutes, how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.
Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband!
But since the affairs of men rests still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall.
But yet, I say, if imputation and strong circumstances, which lead directly to the door of truth, will give you satisfaction, you may have it.
Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.
As for my wife, I would you had her spirit in such another; The third o' th' world is yours, which with a snaffle You may pace easy, but not such a wife.
We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we shou'd be woo'd, and were not made to woo
I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.
So may I, blind fortune leading me, Miss that which one unworthier may attain, And die with grieving.
You may my Glories and my State depose, But not my Griefes; still am I King of those.
A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!
For my part, I may speak it to my shame, I have a truant been to chivalry; And so I hear he doth account me too.
If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make.
Haply a woman's voice may do some good When articles too nicely urged be stood on.
On a day - alack the day! - Love, whose month is ever May, Spied a blossom passing fair Playing in the wanton air
What, no more ceremony? See, my women! Against the blown rose may they stop their nose That kneel'd unto the buds.
Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears Moist it again, and frame some feeling line That may discover such integrity.
Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.
Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.
A man of remarkable genius may afford to pass by a piece of wit, if it happen to border on abuse. A little genius is obliged to catch at every witticism indiscriminately.
