May Quotes - Page 237

Think of the ills from which you are exempt, and it will aid you to bear patiently those which now you may suffer.

If life be long, I will be glad, Tthat I may long obey; If short, yet why should I be sad, To soar to endless day?

We must respect the work we do. A slipshod method never pays- It may get by, but in our minds It makes a scar that always stays.

To matter, to mind. ... What we mind is in our power, but whether we matter may not be - and there's the tragedy. ... Can anyone truthfully say, I don't matter and I don't mind?

When I become mayor, we all become mayor.

A Frenchman may possibly be clean; an Englishman is conscientiously clean.

Always scorn appearances and you always may.

We may like well to know what is Plato’s and what is Montesquieu’s or Goethe’s part, and what thought was always dear to the writer himself; but the worth of the sentences consists in their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence. They fit all our facts like a charm. We respect ourselves the more that we know them.

You may say I may be unfit to be mayor. But you can never say I'm an unfit mayor.

Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.

Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.

Let only that little be left of me whereby I may name thee my all. Let only that little be left of my will whereby I may feel thee on every side, and come to thee in everything, and offer to thee my love every moment. Let only that little be left of me whereby I may never hide thee. Let only that little of my fetters be left whereby I am bound with thy will, and thy purpose is carried out in my life--and that is the fetter of thy love.

Oh, grant me my prayer, that I may never lose the touch of the one in the play of the many.

No fortune is so good but that you may find something to grumble about.

The evil you do to others you may expect in return.

May the World Day of Consecrated Life be a timely occasion to rediscover the centrality of Jesus in our lives.

We cannot but recognize that, in practical terms, defending human life has become more difficult today, because a mentality has been created that progressively devalues human life and entrusts it to the judgement of individuals. A consequence deriving therefrom is lessened respect for the human person, a value that lies at the foundation of any form of civil coexistence, over and above the faith a person may profess.

Whenever anything is spoken against you that is not true, do not pass by or despise it because it is false; but forthwith examine yourself, and consider what you have said or done that may administer a just occasion of reproof.

Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.

As I have found out, recognition has its upside, its downside and – you may say – its backside.

As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

Only fools wait when their enemies are coming, to see if they may prove to be friends.

Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.

That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.