May Quotes - Page 141

Even a hare, the weakest of animals, may insult a dead lion.

Bad as any government may be, it is seldom worse than anarchy.

The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.

The mind may accept or deny that you are awareness, but either way it can’t really understand. It cannot comprehend. Thought cannot comprehend what is beyond thought.

Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her

I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected.

I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.

No man may make another free.

However much [photographs] may lie, they do so with the raw materials of truth.

You can do a movie and hope it may be great, but until you have seen it, you don't know. I loved 'Rampart.' I love that one called 'The Hi-Low Country' that Steven Frears shot.

The chief problem about death ... is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought.

A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

Mayors are judged by results.

Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.

O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do.

And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love.

And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst.

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.

This is a war universe. War all the time. There may be other universes, but ours seems to be based on war and games.

Reserve may be pride fortified in ice; dignity is worth reposing on truth.

The church may hold whatever it holds with regard to clerical celibacy.

[F]riends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

Whenever one refuses to admit such a self-evident truth, for instance, as that it is wrong to steal, don't argue with him-search him; the reason may be found in his pocket.

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.