May Quotes
I simply want to reach a level where I will never cease to make progress...so that, even on the bad evenings, I may never be bad enough to despair.
From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."
To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.
An army may be likened to water, for just as flowing water avoids the heights and hastens to the lowlands, so an army avoids strength and strikes weakness.
You may meditate on whatever you like, but I shall meditate on the heart of a lion. That gives strength
We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.
The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.
You may be less likely to pick on someone if you dont know whats in their briefcase or purse.
There is an inflow of vital power, which is received by all living organisms during sleep ..... this vital energy is the only power by which the body may be healed, repaired, renewed or maintained
Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.
There are some people whom you have in life who have the capacity for real, passionate commitment to something, and sometimes you may be passionately committed to the same thing.
A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all.
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
The anxiety of most parents in seeing their sons and daughters enlist does not lie only in the fear of the physical dangers they may encounter.
He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters.
Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.
A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.
A woman may be a mother, a sister, a business woman, or she may own a business. Woman do many things, and it is important that we do it with grace and style.
There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
What might be a brave choice for you, for another person they may simply not experience fear.
There may be many things wrong with the United States but only a blind fool who hasn't been paying attention for the last twenty years would hold up Europe as the alternative.
If a man wants love he should correct his weaknesses, or his flaws, and he may deserve it. But he cannot expect the unearned, either in love or in money; either in matter or in spirit.
I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see nature and render it like a child, without prejudice.
As soon as you become afraid to make a fool of yourself, you're in trouble. I decided I may as well just see if I can live with myself making millions of mistakes and learn something from it.
One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?
There's right and there's wrong. You got to do one or the other. You do the one and you're living. You do the other and you may be walking around, but you're dead as a beaver hat.
Censorship may be useful for the preservation of morality, but can never be so for its restoration.
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century. Speaking as a mathematician, I should say the odds are about three to one against survival.
You're who you think you are, even if you never admit it to yourself or to anyone else. You may be in the worst position to judge, but you're in the best position to know.