May Quotes - Page 275

Friendship may well deserve the sacrifice of pleasure, though not of conscience.

A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion; he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

I wish you would add an index rerum, that when the reader recollects any incident he may easily find it.

Games are good or bad as to their nature; all may be perverted.

Such is the constitution of Man that labor may be said to be its own re-ward.

There may be community of material possessions, but there can never be community of love or esteem.

He that writes may be considered as a kind of general challenger, whom every one has a right to attack; since he quits the common rank of life, steps forward beyond the lists, and offers his merit to the public judgement. To commence author is to claim praise, and no man can justly aspire to honour, but at the hazard of disgrace.

He that never labors may know the pains of idleness, but not the pleasures.

The belief of immortality is impressed upon all men, and all men act under an impression of it, however they may talk, and though, perhaps, they may be scarcely sensible of it.

Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.

So many objections may be made to everything, that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.

A voyage to the moon, however romantick and absurd the scheme may now appear, since the properties of air have been better understood, seemed highly probable to many of the aspiring wits in the last century

Truth has no gradations; nothing which admits of increase can be so much what it is, as truth is truth. There may be a strange thing, and a thing more strange. But if a proposition be true, there can be none more true.

Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.

Every man may be observed to have a certain strain of lamentation, some peculiar theme of complaint on which he dwells in his moments of dejection.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.

Being in public with May and the children was too heavy. I was irreversibly tuned in to everyone around us.

A lot of people may not know this but I'm quite famous.

Needless to say, this would be an unthinkable crime—as it would kill tens of millions of innocent civilians in a single day—but it may be the only course of action available to us, given what Islamists believe

Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.

The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.

When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.