May Quotes - Page 266

We frolic while 'tis May.

Iraq may still have a decent outcome...but even if it becomes Switzerland, we overpaid for it.

As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today, however, he is thought to have been a solidly good president, a 'Near Great' even, in the terminology of those surveys of historians they do every now and then.

The prosperity of a nation requires the protection of a senate. Hereafter a national senate may require the protection of a national army.

He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned.

One moment may with bliss repay Unnumbered hours of pain.

When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember.

Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.

To be content with death may be better than to desire it.

For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.

A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question: all his notions about it may be vague and inaccurate; but speak he must. And if he is a man of ability, of tact, and of intrepidity, he soon finds that, even under such circumstances, it is possible to speak successfully.

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

It may be laid as an universal rule that a government which attempts more than it ought will perform less.

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.

No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.

The human mind may perceive truth only through thinking, as is clear from Augustine.

My name may be Thom Yorke, but only I can call me Thom Yorke.

I may be French, but I'm playing for Arsenal.

Though leadership may be hard to define, the one characteristic common to all leaders is the ability to make things happen.

I, alas, must present myself somewhat ignominiously as a chef in a busy kitchen. Somewhere a novel is bubbling on a back burner, an old attempt at history may come out of the freezer.

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

Just as you believe you may have already halfway there

The greater the teacher, the greater the pupil may become.