May Quotes

A rich dress adds but little to the beauty of a person. It may possibly create a deference, but that is rather an enemy to love.

A spade may be made of any size, and if the same number of strokes be made in the hour, the requisite exertion will vary nearly as the cube of the length of the blade.

A speech is like an airplane engine. It may sound like hell but you've got to go on.

Too long, that some may rest, tired millions toil unblest.

Fiat justitia et ruant coeli. Let justice be done, though the heavens may fall. See Ferdinand I 320:1.

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

Be wary of security as a goal. It may often look like life's best prize. Usually it's not.

Teachers have power. We may cripple them by petty economics; by Government regulations, by the foolish criticism of an uninformed press; but their power exists for good or evil.

The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship.

It may be that ... when the advance of destructive weapons enables everyone to kill everybody else nobody will want to kill anyone at all. [Referring to the hydrogen bomb.]

Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilisation may be carried triumphantly forward.

You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. Move on!

Overall there may be less censorship in America than in China, but censorship and self-censorship are not only from political pressure, but also pressures from other places in a society.

The land is numb. It stands beneath the feet, and one may come Walking securely, till the sea extends Its limber margin, and precision ends.

When you're doing standup you're kind of doing, "Hey. I thought of this. This may be funny.

The conservative values that are emerging, it may not effect architecture immediately but it will effect society and that's what worries me.

This scene may disturb you, so you have to pay attention.

Blessings often give rise to injury, so be careful when things are going your way. Success may be achieved after failure, so don't just give up when you've been disappointed.

Don't be too severe in criticizing people's faults; consider how much they can bear. Don't be too lofty in enjoining virtue, so people may be able to follow.

Actually, scientists don't know exactly how lice jumped from gorillas to our human ancestors. They speculate that we may have eaten them or perhaps slept in their nests.

This cocktail may be virgin, but you won't be after drinking it. Schisandra is a superberry, an adaptogen and... an aphrodisiac.

When we do something we're not proud of, a lot of people don't want to look at that, people may say "what people don't know won't hurt them."

But, like all happiness, it did not last long…

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…

…feeling as if all the happiness and support of their lives was about to be taken from them.

…wisely mingled poetry and prose.

Energy is what I believe all of us are. We're just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no other reason but to stay amused.

…having learned that people cannot be moulded like clay…

In her secret soul, however, she decided that politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names…

…I'm always ready to talk, shouldn't be a woman if I were not, ' laughed Mrs. Jo…

I wish I had no heart, it aches so…

I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world…

…no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate in the lively brains of little people.

I like good strong words that mean something…

…nothing remained but loneliness and grief…

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me…

…possessed of that indescribable charm called grace.

…for action is always easier than quiet waiting.

Don't try to make me grow up before my time…

I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that…

Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret…

That was all I wanted!" whispered Polly, in a tone which caused him to feel that the race of angels was not entirely extinct.

Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms and said, "Darling, love me!" I wanted to shake her, ' answered Mrs. Jo, wiping her pen with energy.

…a woman's always safe and comfortable when a fellow's down on his luck.

And mother-like, Mrs. Jo forgot the threatened chastisement in tender lamentations over the happy scapegrace…

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

The architect should strive continually to simplify the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.