May Quotes - Page 259

Worry is discounting possible future sorrows so that the individual may have present misery.

We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.

The regular hours necessary to be observed by those who follow country business, are perhaps of more consequence than any of the other articles, however important those may be.

The admiral, or commander in chief of a squadron, being frequently invested with a great charge, on which the fate of a kingdom may depend, ought certainly to be possessed of abilities equal to so important a station and so extensive a command.

However rich we may become in knowledge of the deeper causes of historical results, we forgo all understanding of history if we forget this inner continuity,--i.e., the conscious intentions of the participants in history-making and their consciously known successes.

Every social need, such as the need for friendship, must be a party to its own satisfaction: I cannot passively find my friend as a ready-made friend; a ready-made human being he may be, but his friendship for me I must help to create by my own active resolve.

A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body; but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty.

Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.

Marriage indeed may qualify the fury of his passion, but it very rarely mends a man's manners.

However roguish a man may be, he always loves to deal with an honest man.

Prose may carry a load of ill-defined matters like a ship. But poetry is the machine which drives it, pruned to a perfect economy.

The more you find out about the world economy, the less you may truly know.

Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.

. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death

May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.

Too much of anything, even a good thing, may prove to be our undoing...[We] need ...to set definite boundaries on our appetites.

It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.

Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease.

Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created.

Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.

We may elevate ourselves but we should never reach so high that we would every forget those who helped us get there.

Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth.

I was worried before I saw the play 'The Seven Storey Mountain', thinking I don't really want to see a play about Thomas Merton. He probably wouldn't have either, ideally. Then it isn't. It's more about us and it's about our relationship to what he may or may not have thought about. It's its own thing completely.

In every remodelling of the present, the existing condition of things must be supplanted by a new one. Now every variety of circumstances in which men find themselves, every object which surrounds them, communicates a definite form and impress to their internal nature. This form is not such that it can change and adapt itself to any other a man may choose to receive; and the end is foiled, while the power is destroyed, when we attempt to impose upon that which is already stamped in the soul a form which disagrees with it.