May Quotes

We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them.

The noble art of losing face may one day save the human race and turn into eternal merit what weaker minds would call disgrace.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

We can profit only by our own misfortunes and those of others. The former, though they may be the more beneficial, are also the more painful; let us turn, then, to the latter.

May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman.

May we always care for our children, not counting the cost, so that they may never believe themselves to be mistakes, but always know their infinite worth.

The most melancholy thing about human nature, is, that a man may guide others into the path of salvation, without walking in it himself; that he may be a pilot, and yet a castaway.

What valor cannot win, flattery may.

One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.

Ambition is a vice, but it may be the father of virtue.

He who fights and runs away May live to fight another day.

The nakedness of the indigent world may be clothed from the trimmings of the vain.

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

I may be a young girl, but behind every young girl is a powerful father.

I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And cleanse his soul from Sin? How else but through a broken heart May Lord Christ enter in?

If you carry someone else's fears and live by someone else's values, you may find that you have lived their lives.

the realization of great mutual love can at times be so overwhelming a thing, that even the bravest of hearts may grow fearful.

I don't feel particularly comfortable about actors using whatever power they may have to push their beliefs, unless they're extremely well informed.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness.

What potent blood hath modest May.

One may be nice on the outside but on the inside isnt pretty

A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside.

A creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters.

Parents who indulge themselves 'in moderation' may have children who indulge themselves to excess.

We may be so eager to protect the right to dissent that we lose sight of the difference between dissent and subversion.

What was I up to, you may ask? I certainly didn't want to meet Monsieur Evil again or creepy old Lord Salamander.

Love may be blind, but this I'll state - it's eagle-eyed compared to hate.

What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.

It is your work to clear away the mass of encumbering material of thoughts, so that you may bring into plain view the precious thing at the center of the mass.

Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!

People who pay the price for security may never really feel secure rather the more their insecurity grows inside them because they are paying the price for action but not their internal reaction

Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.

Those who assume hypotheses as first principles of their speculations.....may indeed form an ingenious romance, but a romance it will still be.

Pray that no sleep may seize upon your eyes, nor slumber upon your eyelids until your thoughts have seriously, calmly, and unchangably fixed.

If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance, he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

I am so close, I may look distant.

A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

Some propositions are so dangerous that it may even be ethical to kill people for believing them.

I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.

You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.

I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.

A person may have no relatives anywhere, but Mahamaya may make him keep a cat and thus make him worldly. This is how She plays!

Voyager upon life's sea, To yourself be true, And whate'er your lot may be, Paddle your own canoe.

He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

When all feels calm and prices surge, the markets may feel safe; but, in fact, they are dangerous because few investors are focusing on risk.