May Quotes - Page 224

Laugh at your friends, And if your friends are sore; So much the better, You may laugh the more.

To the covetous man life is a nightmare, and God lets him wrestle with it as best he may.

Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it is not always May!

Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world.

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.

So many things beat upon us in a lifetime that simply enduring may seem almost beyond us… But the test a loving God has set before us is not to see if we can endure difficulty. It is to see if we can endure it well. We pass the test by showing that we remembered Him and the commandments He gave us. And to endure well is to keep those commandments whatever the opposition, whatever the temptation, and whatever the tumult around us.

If this liberal potential is properly channeled, we may expect the area of freedom of the United States to increase. The problem is to spend up our rate of social invention in the service of the welfare of all the people.

Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.

God has given us speech in order that we may say pleasant things to our friends, and tell bitter truths to our enemies.

Opinions may be mistaken; love never is.

Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.

There are some current 'theories' that, when divested of begged questions, reduce to the non-controversial statement, 'Here are some facts and there may be some relation between them.'

It is the nature of beginning that something new is started which cannot be expected from whatever may have happened before. This character of startling unexpectedness is inherent in all beginnings.

The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an absorbing one someone will listen.

Another bigger problem is the fact that these incidents of police violence continue to occur because far too often the officers on the force rally around the one who committed the act of violence and, in this particular instance, may have engaged in a cover-up that itself should be prosecuted.

It is better to obey the mysterious direction, without any fuss, when it points to a new road, however strange that road may be. There is probably as much reason for it, if the truth were known, as for anything else.

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

Sometimes you have to play in a position that you may not feel is your best.

You must always remember, because the mediocre mind you encounter may be your own.

That which is loved may pass, but love hath no end.

Democracy is like blowing your nose. You may not do it well, but it's something you ought to do yourself.

People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.

My friends call me George, GM, or Georgia. But most people who know me from when I was little call me Georgia May.

Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They all may collapse altogether.

The growth of the soul may be compared to the growth of a plant. In both cases, no new properties are imparted by the operation of external causes, but only the inward tendencies are called into action and clothed with strength.