May Quotes
May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers, With what pretty music Shall we charm the hours? Wilt thou have pipe and reed, Blown in the open mead? Or to the lute give heed In the green bowers.
You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!
May we continue to remember not to judge man by the color of his skin, but the content of his character.
Go to parties. You can't even start to know what you may find on the envelope of serendipity. If you suffer from agoraphobia, send colleagues.
Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.
Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.
My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man’s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit.
We tried in our simple way to lead our life in a manner that may make a difference to those of others.
What innocence, may I ask, is being played here when it is known that this virtuous damsel has already got a dozen illegitimate children?
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.
May the Child Jesus be the star that guides you through the desert of your present life.
There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God.
It may be true that artists adopt a flamboyant appearance, but it's also true that people who look funny get stuck with the arts.
The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul.
In life your dreams may not come true, but sooner or later one of your nightmares will.
This is a life of faith, for God will try the truth of our faith, so that the world may see that God has such servants as will depend upon His bare word.
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.
A goal is different from a wish. You may wish to be rich, but there's no responsibility for it. With a goal, it's on you to achieve it.
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of individual's and society's self-deception.
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy
We may have failed to teach our children right from wrong, but we've done a great job of teaching self-esteem!
Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.
Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.
One of the biggest insurance mistakes boat owners make is endorsing their boats onto their homeowners policies, which may not cover their losses from a major storm.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
If you know from history the danger, then part of the danger is over because it may not take you by surprise as it did your ancestors.
Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.
To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.
No matter how confused or deluded we may be at the moment, the underlying and essential nature of our being is clear and pure
I admit that I ain't no angel, I admit that I ain't no saint - I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind. If I exorcise my devils, well my angels may leave too. When they leave they're so hard to find.
In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.
A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.
He may have gone to bed three hours ago, but he knows who he is playing. You can rest assured that he hasn't slept a wink.
I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.
The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy.
What is important in a leader is a resolute will and determination. A man may be versatile and learned, but if he lacks resoluteness and determination, of what use will he be?
Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.