May Quotes - Page 192

It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.

Busy not yourself in looking forward to the events of to-morrow; but whatever may be those of the days Providence may yet assign you neglect not to turn them to advantage.

This man, I say, is most perfect who shall have understood everything for himself, after having devised what may be best afterward and unto the end.

One needs but to say that, in the case of an unfamiliar sequence of syllables, only about seven can be grasped in one act, but that with frequent repetition and gradually increasing familiarity with the series this capacity of consciousness may be increased

It may seem strange that of all men sailors should be tinkering at their last wills and testaments, but there are no people in the world more fond of that diversion.

And yet self-knowledge is thought by some not so easy. Who knows, my dear sir, but for a time you may have taken yourself for somebody else? Stranger things have happened.

For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever completing anything. This whole book is but a draught—nay, but the draught of a draught. Oh, Time, Strength, Cash, and Patience!

The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.

In a world which is armed to its teeth with nuclear weapons, every quarrel or difference of opinion may lead to violence of a kind quite different from what is possible today.

And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.

We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.

The young may die, but the old must!

Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend.

How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.

I'm only wishing to go a-fishing;For this the month of May was made.

Spring is a true reconstructionist.

Let us recognize the beauty and power of true enthusiasm; and whatever we may do to enlighten ourselves and others, guard against checking or chilling a single earnest sentiment.

The more I wrote, the more I became a human being. The writing may have seemed monstrous (to some) for it was a violation, but I became a more human individual because of it. I was getting the poison out of my system.

Even the idiot may have a message for us

It is always safe to assume, not that the old way is wrong, but that there may be a better way.

It may be laid down as a general rule, that no woman who hath any great pretensions to admiration is ever well pleased in a company where she perceives herself to fill only the second place.

There is scarcely any man, how much soever he may despise the character of a flatterer, but will condescend in the meanest manner to flatter himself.