May Quotes

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.

What is dead may never die, but rises again, stronger and harder.

Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. Always do more than is required of you. If a man has done his best, what else is there?

When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.

Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.

Prayer is essentially a process by which ideals are enabled to become operative in our lives. It may be more than this, but it is at least this.

the principal sources of human misery may fairly be said to lie in the over-possession, under-possession, and the unwise use of economic goods.

A masterpiece... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.

What will your children remember? Moments spent listening, talking, playing and sharing together may be the most important times of all.

May they rest in eternal peace.

Brains, integrity, and force may be all very well, but what you need today is Charm. Go ahead and work on your economic programs if you want to, I'll develop my radio personality.

Lust is not the worst thing. It is because any day, any time, lust may turn into love that we have to avoid it. And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.

I think I may drop dead on the stage someday. I hate to think of it. But it's getting tough on me, the travel. The show, I somehow manage to rise up to it, you know. But I have no desire to retire.

May Allah guide us to the good of the kingdom of Bahrain and its loyal people.

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.

What I cannot live with may not bother another man's conscience. The result is that conscience will stand against conscience.

A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.

Pretending can be a bold form of experimentation and inventiveness. In pretending joy or happiness, we may discover or enhance our capacity for it.

I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.

You may feel powerless as a child, but the world will one day be yours. And you're responsible for it. So, seize the day and take charge of it.

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.

The voice of one who goes before, to makeThe paths of June more beautiful, is thineSweet May!

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are 'made in America.'

Ignorance may be bliss, but it does not lead to liberation.

Payday at my house is like the Academy Awards. My wife says: May I have the envelope please.

Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not traveling.

Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers.

Luxury possibly may contribute to give bread to the poor; but if there were no luxury, there would be no poor.

Parsimony is enough to make the master of the golden mines as poor as he that has nothing; for a man may be brought to a morsel of bread by parsimony as well as profusion.

You may have to live in a crowd, but you do not have to live like it.

Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.

May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

Love is like death. It is fulfillment and an evening after which nothing more may follow.

Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.

Well, I may not be the youngest candidate in this race. But I will be the youngest woman President in the history of the United States!

The truth isn't so simple. Death may be inevitable, but love is not. Love, you have to choose.

Patience makes lighter / What sorrow may not heal. ("sed levius fit patientia quidquid corrigere est nefas")

He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

Great grief makes sacred those upon whom its hand is laid. Joy may elevate, ambition glorify, but sorrow alone can consecrate.

Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.

I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.