May Quotes - Page 271

Every legislative limitation upon utterance, however valid, may in a particular case serve as an inroad upon the freedom of speech which the Constitution protects.

Politeness has been defined to be artificial good-nature; but we may affirm, with much greater propriety, that good-nature is natural politeness.

To date, my biggest lesson may be that judgment of others is never a good thing.

We never know the issues others may be facing, and it isn't up to us to judge actions and behavior.

The satisfaction of life May not be ours, But the beauty of hope Is all ours.

To all the Callahan's Places there ever were or ever will be, whatever they may be called — and to all the merry maniacs and happy fools who are fortunate enough to stumble into one: may none of them arrive too late!

Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.

Examine the measure of your children's capacities, and leave none of them uncultivated. However modest you may be in dress and other expenditures for a person of your rank, consecrate all you have to your children's education.

I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal.

...you may be able to sway people's heads. But you can't sway their hearts.

Riches may not bring happiness, but neither does poverty.

I may still be a kind of a Marxist but I'm very realistic, I don't have these dreams of revolutionists around the corner.

The law hath so many contradictions and varyings from itself, that the law may not improperly be called a law-breaker. It is become too changeable a thing to be defined: it is made little less a Mystery than the Gospel. The clergy and the lawyers, like the Freemasons, may be supposed to take an oath not to tell the secret.

A very small offence may be a just cause for great resentment: it is often much less the particular instance which is obnoxious to us than the proof it carries with it of the general tenor and disposition of the mind from whence it sprung.

We should desire neither the immortality nor the death of any human being, whoever he may be, with whom we have to do.

If you're looking for a New York Times best-seller, I may or may not give you that.

Working anti-social shifts in a difficult environment is undoubtedly challenging. But even militant staff may privately concede that some of the working conditions they enjoy are unusually benign.

The only situation which might justify panic is one in which panic is likely to help. Such a situation never arises. Though pretended panic may sometimes cause a useful diversion, real panic can never be anything other than a waste of energy.

Since there is no telling in advance where it may lead, reflection can be seen as dangerous .

We may never truly see the fruits of the labor.

I'm not sure I'll come back to this planet. I may come back to another one.

You will be wondering about that sugar bowl, I imagine, is it still in use? You are wondering, has it been cleaned? You may very well ask, was it thoroughly washed?

I assume then, that you have no real faith in the fondness any of the rest of us may feel for you?''None,' said Mrs. Halloran.

I'm not dead. I mean, I may be getting older, but I'm not dead!

If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means.