Top May Quotes Collection - Page 17

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Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Collection: May
Image of Epictetus
To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.
- Epictetus
Collection: May
Image of John Dryden
Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
- John Dryden
Collection: May
Image of Arthur Eddington
What is possible in the Cavendish Laboratory may not be too difficult in the sun.
- Arthur Eddington
Collection: May
Image of George Eliot
Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner.
- George Eliot
Collection: May
Image of Harlan Ellison
If you let the image of the messenger get in the way of whatever message there may be, however large or small, that's your problem, not his.
- Harlan Ellison
Collection: May
Image of Peter Drucker
Objectives can be compared to a compass bearing by which a ship navigates. A compass bearing is firm, but in actual navigation, a ship may veer off its course for many miles. Without a compass bearing, a ship would neither find its port nor be able to estimate the time required to get there.
- Peter Drucker
Collection: May
Image of Frederick Lenz
We may have a tiny little room that we rent, and if we keep it clean and it's impeccable, then we gain a power from that.
- Frederick Lenz
Collection: May
Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always scorn appearances and you always may.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Collection: May
Image of Maya Angelou
You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.
- Maya Angelou
Collection: May
Image of T. B. Joshua
Your troubles may point you to death and destruction, but God's Word points you to life.
- T. B. Joshua
Collection: May
Image of Fyodor Dostoevsky
...chance may do anything.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
Collection: May
Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Collection: May
Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
A friend may be nature's most magnificent creation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Collection: May
Image of Guy Finley
I am willing to walk toward, and then through, whatever may be seen in the moment as being greater than myself.
- Guy Finley
Collection: May
Image of John Dryden
Virgil, above all poets, had a stock which I may call almost inexhaustible, of figurative, elegant, and sounding words.
- John Dryden
Collection: May
Image of George Eliot
But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?
- George Eliot
Collection: May
Image of Desiderius Erasmus
[Only by] the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train.
- Desiderius Erasmus
Collection: May
Image of Benjamin Disraeli
Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Collection: May
Image of Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Collection: May
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: May
Image of Aristotle
Let us first understand the facts and then we may seek the cause.
- Aristotle
Collection: May
Image of Theophile Gautier
It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic heads as ours, already streaked with silver threads.
- Theophile Gautier
Collection: May
Image of Sigmund Freud
The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.
- Sigmund Freud
Collection: May
Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Collection: May
Image of Oliver Goldsmith
The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.
- Oliver Goldsmith
Collection: May
Image of Pope Francis
We have to state, without mincing words, that there is an inseparable bond between our faith and the poor. May we never abandon them.
- Pope Francis
Collection: May
Image of Elizabeth Gaskell
..still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love.
- Elizabeth Gaskell
Collection: May
Image of Nadine Gordimer
Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.
- Nadine Gordimer
Collection: May
Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Collection: May
Image of Pope Francis
Lent is a favorable time for letting Christ serve us so that we in turn may become more like Him.
- Pope Francis
Collection: May
Image of Benjamin Franklin
Let me resolve to be virtuous, that I may be happy, that I may please Him, who is delighted to see me happy. Amen.
- Benjamin Franklin
Collection: May
Image of Pope Francis
May we always say thank you to God, especially for his patience and mercy.
- Pope Francis
Collection: May
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: May
Image of Mahatma Gandhi
However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Collection: May
Image of Robert Frost
A poem may be worked over once it is in being, but may not be worried into being.
- Robert Frost
Collection: May
Image of Stephen Fry
I shouldn't be saying this, high treason really, but I sometimes wonder if Americans aren't fooled by our accent into detecting a brilliance that may not really be there.
- Stephen Fry
Collection: May
Image of John Green
The five of us walking confidently in a row, I'd never felt cooler. The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not.
- John Green
Collection: May
Image of Benjamin Franklin
You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right.
- Benjamin Franklin
Collection: May
Image of Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Social distinctions concern themselves ultimately with whom you may and may not marry.
- Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Collection: May
Image of Stephen Jay Gould
Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.
- Stephen Jay Gould
Collection: May
Image of Robert Fulghum
But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.
- Robert Fulghum
Collection: May
Image of Felix Frankfurter
Ambiguity lurks in generality, and may thus become an instrument of severity.
- Felix Frankfurter
Collection: May
Image of Benjamin Franklin
A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others.
- Benjamin Franklin
Collection: May
Image of Ellen Glasgow
there are times when life surprises one, and anything may happen, even what one had hoped for.
- Ellen Glasgow
Collection: May
Image of Billy Graham
It may be difficult to understand why a test comes our way, but we must never forget that the test is accomplishing refining and purification.
- Billy Graham
Collection: May
Image of Pope Francis
May the Lord bless the family and strengthen it in this moment of crisis
- Pope Francis
Collection: May
Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To like things like, whatever one may ail; There is certain help.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Collection: May