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May Quotes - Page 146

Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may.

"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" l. 1 (1648)

We can make mayors and officers every year, but not scholars.

Robert Burton, William H. Gass (2001). “The Anatomy of Melancholy”, NYRB Classics

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.223, Penguin

I believe that we often disguise pain through ritual and it may be the only solace we have.

Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.8, Bantam

Whatever pains disease may bring Are but the tangy seasoning To Loves delicious fare.

Richard Wilbur (2012). “Poems of Richard Wilbur”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.

Richard Sibbes, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “THE BRUISED REED”, Lulu.com

Wherever your travels may take you, I hope it's profitable.

"CNN Business Traveller" with Richard Quest, edition.cnn.com. June 13, 2009.

Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face.

Richard Chenevix Trench (1874). “Poems”, p.120

There can be no high civility without a deep morality, though it may not always call itself by that name.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.13, Harvard University Press

Indeed I am inclined to go so far as to say that the one cause for which one may properly make war is the cause of peace.

Charles Chatfield, Bertrand Russell, Ralph Barton Perry (1972). “ETHICS OF WAR”, Dissertations-G