May Quotes - Page 248

We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment.

The path of love. Good luck. May your love guide you through the bardo to eternity.

Mozart starved, but you allow Thalberg and Liszt make tons of gold: Of course, you may think that someone immortal cannot die of hunger

The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths.

Opportunity may knock only once but it passes by your door every day.

The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul.

Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.

Man only blames himself in order that he may be praised.

Only strong natures can really be sweet ones; those that seem sweet are in general only weak, and may easily turn sour.

Whosoever obeyeth the devil, casteth himself down: for the devil may suggest, compel he cannot.

Be not too rash in the breaking of an inconvenient custom; as it was gotten, so leave it by degrees. Danger attends upon too sudden alterations; he that pulls down a bad building by the great may be ruined by the fall, but he that takes it down brick by brick may live to build a better.

Ambiguity lurks in generality, and may thus become an instrument of severity.

I have followed my ear and my heart, which may be false. I hope not.

Our bishops storehouses are not intended to stock enough commodities to care for all the members of the Church. Storehouses are only established to care for the poor and the needy. For this reason, members of the Church have been instructed to personally store a year's supply of food, clothing, and, where possible, fuel. By following this counsel, most members will be prepared and able to care for themselves and their family members, and be able to share with others as may be needed.

From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.

You may take great comfort from the fact that suffering inwardly for the sake of truth proves abundantly that one loves it and marks one out as being of the elect.

Now what has happened in our country during the time we have been plunging toward socialism? Are we actually at that point where the Constitution may be hanging by a single thread and we need to step in to save it?

Passionate intensity may serve as a substitute for confidence.

The superficiality of many is a result of deep fears. It takes spare time to think things out; it takes free time to mature. People in a hurry may not think well or mature well. The next best is a state of perpetual puerility.

The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.

Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be.

Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.

There may be wonder in money, but, dear God, there is money in wonder.