May Quotes - Page 162

It's all you can say, when the end comes: 'I did not waste my time.' I think that matters. I think it may be all that matters.

When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again.

Indeed, the highest pleasure of golf may be that on the fairways and far from all the pressures of commerce and rationality, we can feel immortal for a few hours.

The troops may whine and moan, but when they meet the standard, there's a sense of pride.

They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall.

Before I begin, may I ask how old you are?" "You may ask." "How old are you?" "It's none of your business

May your swords stay sharp -Brom

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.

Economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.

Rugby may have many problems, but the gravest is undoubtedly that of the persistence of summer.

Embracing new things often requires us to embrace our fears, however trivial they may seem. You deal with fear not by pretending it doesn't exist, but by refusing to give it decision-making authority.

It may be very well to do this and that for good fellowship; but it will never do to lose the friendship of God in order to keep on good terms with men.

May gratitude to God permeate my entire life.

If you have no share in the living Lord may God have mercy upon you! If you have no share in Christ's rising from the dead then you will not be raised up in the likeness of His glorified body. If you do not attain to that resurrection from among the dead then you must abide in death.

Do what you may, strive as earnestly as you can, live as excellently as you please, make what sacrifices you choose, be as eminent as you can for everything that is lovely and of good repute, yet none of these things can be pleaseing to God unless they be mixed with faith.

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?

And when it has got in; as one not finding what it seeks, whatever that may be, it wails and howls to issue forth again: and not content with stalking through the aisles, and gliding round and round the pillars, and tempting the deep organ, soars up to the roof, and strives to rend the rafters: then flings itself despairingly upon the stones below, and passes, muttering, into the vaults.

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Neutrality is no favorite with Providence, for we are so formed that it is scarcely possible for us to stand neuter in our hearts, although we may deem it prudent to appear so in our actions

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.

That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.

Actors may know how to act, but a lot of them don't know how to behave.

We may employ artifice to deceive a rival, anything against our enemies.