May Quotes - Page 189

Let us not overstrain our talents, lest we do nothing gracefully: a clown, whatever he may do, will never pass for a gentleman. [Fr., Ne forcons point notre talent; Nous ne ferions rien avec grace: Jamais un lourdaud, quoi qu'il fasse, Ne saurit passer pour galant.]

We love good looks rather than what is practical, Though good looks may prove destructive.

In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.

It seems to me that the spirit of politeness is a certain attention in causing that, by our words and by our manners, others may be content with us and with themselves.

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.

When you go out and audition, you're going to hear a lot of 'No's.' As weird as it may sound, you almost have to love hearing 'no' because you're going to hear it way more than you hear 'yes'.

Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience.

Although he may not be human, it’s good that Messi still thinks he is.

Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian of what it commands; and is the only sure defence of happiness.

The only impregnable citadel of virtue is religion; for there is no bulwark of mere morality, which some temptation may not overtop or undermine, and destroy.

It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.

Fear of repeating oneself, of repeating oneself may be the greatest bugaboo of late capitalist society. The fear has been marketed so effectively that a will to sustain attention on any one thing can be cancelled out easily in favour of the latest distraction.

Banks also have to say no to customers. We can't always give clients what they want; it may not be in the client's best interest.

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

I have been studying how I may compare this prison where I live unto the world; Shut up in the prison of their own consciences.

It is singular how impatient men are with overpraise of others, how patient of overpraise of themselves; and yet the one does them no injury, while the other may be their ruin.

May is a pious fraud of the almanac.

Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge.

No price is set on the lavish summer; June may be had by the poorest comer.

The happy and the suffering probably understand life equally well, but the sufferers may see a little more clearly how little it is that they understand.

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant in a legal manner, also may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.