May Quotes - Page 156

Never resign. There's always a chance your opponent may drop dead before he mates you.

A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.

That is why we may say that the historical development of capitalism has involved the thrust towards the commodification of everything.

So act that anything you do may become universal law.

I think the easiest people to fool are ourselves. Fooling ourselves may even be a necessary precondition for fooling others.

However they may have felt when they left they were now committed, they had passed the point of no return.

You may be liberal in your praise where praise is due: it costs nothing; it encourages much.

You may be witty, but not satirical.

You may see me, fat and shining, with well-cared for hide, . . . a hog from Epicurus' herd. [Lat., Me pinguem et nitidum bene curata cute vises, . . . Epicuri de grege porcum.]

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

When doing everything according to indications, although things may not turn out agreeably to indication, we should not change to another while the original appearances remain.

Let it please thee to keep in order a moderate-sized farm, that so thy garners may be full of fruits in their season.

While knowledge may provide useful point of reference, it cannot become a force to guide the future.

Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual occurrence, this preposterous misrepresentation of it would never have existed. Though the distorted or magnified image transmitted to us through the refracting medium of rumour, is utterly unlike the reality; yet in the absence of the reality there would have been no distorted or magnified image.

Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.

Before we decide to trust you with this power, we ask you to stand before the public and explain your views. Justice may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

Defeat may be victory in disguise.

Ah me! why may not love and life be one?

Once you say something, it stays said. I apologized to anyone who may have been hurt by what I said, and I really meant it. I am absolutely not interested in hurting anyone, or being mean or insensitive.

However British you may be, I am more British still.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.