May Quotes - Page 159

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

It will not be possible to rule out the supposition that the process of evolution may be guided by an intelligent design.

That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.

As to the most prudent logicians might venture to deduce from a skein of wool the probable existence of a sheep; so you, from the raw stuff of perception, may venture to deduce a universe which transcends the reproductive powers of your loom.

Good and bad may not be dissevered; There is, as there should be, a commingling.

It may not always be profitable at first for businesses to be online, but it is certainly going to be unprofitable not to be online.

You may have a beautiful philosophy, you may have lofty ideals, but what you will do with your philosophy and ideals is dependent entirely upon what you are inside yourself

You're beautiful, like a May fly.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

One look at love and you may see it weaves a web over mystery, all ravelled threads can rend apart for hope has a place in the lover's heart. Hope has a place in a lover's heart.

Language may die at the hands of the schoolman: it is regenerated by the poets

It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.

I truly believe I may be getting too big for my own good.

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.

though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

We must hold fast to the truths which we have already received; we must not look with suspicion upon any new light that God may send.

It may be far in the future, but there's some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.

Claims of right and insistence upon obligations may depend upon treaty stipulations, or upon the rules of international law, or upon the sense of natural justice applied to the circumstances of a particular case, or upon disputed facts.

There is so much of good in human nature that men grow to like each other upon better acquaintance, and this points to another way in which we may strive to promote the peace of the world.

The worst, the hardest, the most disagreeable thing that you may have to do may be the thing that counts most, because it is the hard discipline, and it alone, that makes possible the highest efficiency.

Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive.

Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.

Heredity is to-day the central problem of biology. This problem may be approached from many sides - that of the breeder, the experimenter, the statistician, the physiologist, the embryologist, the cytologist - but the mechanism of heredity can be studied best by the investigation of the germ cells and their development.

Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.