May Quotes - Page 186

The motives of the best actions will not bear too strict an inquiry. It is allowed that the cause of most actions, good or bad, may be resolved into the love of ourselves; but the self-love of some men inclines them to please others, and the self-love of others is wholly employed in pleasing themselves. This makes the great distinction between virtue and vice.

Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.

Well sir, I may not be a for-real cowboy... But I am one hell of a stud!

It didn't matter that Charlie Chaplin may not have been a great director or a great anything else. He made great movies.

People may have too much of a good thing: Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.

The greatest men May ask a foolish question, now and then.

The history of this paper suggests that highly speculative investigations, especially by an unknown author, are best brought before the world through some other channel than a scientific society, which naturally hesitates to admit into its printed records matters of uncertain value. Perhaps one may go further and say that a young author who believes himself capable of great things would usually do well to secure the favourable recognition of the scientific world by work whose scope is limited and whose value is easily judged, before embarking upon higher flights.

Even people within a relationship can be really alone, and then have to go outside of it in order to find something, whatever it is. It may be very bizarre and maybe something very tender.

Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his reader is sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words, or his reader will certainly misunderstand them. Generally, also, a downright fact may be told in a plain way; and we want downright facts at present more than anything else.

The Affordable Care Act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax.

It may be a very bad thing that I needed God to die for me, but it is a wonderful thing that God thinks I am worth dying for.

O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.

And may we find when ended is the page, Death but a tavern on our pilgrimage.

I somehow hope - naïve though I may be, utopian, possibly - that my music has some kind of calming effect on the universe, that it's somehow beneficial to people.

There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all.

Technology, under all circumstances, leads to planning; in its higher manifestations it may put the problems of planning beyond the reach of the industrial firm. Technological compulsions, and not ideology or political will, will require the firm to seek the help and protection of the state.

O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?

And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.

Let me tell you what is interesting about the administration. We had Central American miners that were placed in Ohio, and we never knew a thing about it. We didn't know where they were. And, in fact, we know now that some of them, there is a case going on where some of them may have been human-trafficked.