May Quotes - Page 300

An opinion may be controverted; a prejudice, never.

Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does.

For some people, marriage may be very groovy. For me, it really isn't. I don't think it really is for most people anyway. Most people are not very happy.

To Yelena, our newest food taster. May you last longer than your predecessor.

[On collectors of quotations:] How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets.

We may make our future by the best use of the present. There is no moment like the present.

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

Too much brilliance has its disadvantages, and misplaced wit may raise a laugh, but often beheads a topic of profound interest.

Working hard may not make you rich, but it should make you successful.

Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted from our stupid, cruel sentimentalism.

Married people do stand up so for each other when you say a word, however they may fight between themselves.

Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity.

We must bear in mind the possibility that the greater opportunities open in the twentieth century to women may be quite withdrawn, and that we may return to stricter regimentation of women.

In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment; and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied.

What is one person's diversion may be another's supreme test.

Every fact is impure, but every fact contains in it the juices of life. Every fact is a clod, from which may grow an amaranth or a palm.

Broadly speaking, nervous women may be divided into two classes - those who are really nervous, and those who imagine themselves to be so.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

One may be my very good friend, and yet not of my opinion.

It doesn't really matter what "genre" your book is. What matters is that it's a good book of its kind. Whatever that kind may be.

I've never bought into any sort of hard and fast, this-box/that-box characterization. People are individuals. Yes, they may be expected to be a particular way. But that doesn't mean they're going to be that way.

Laughter may instruct but it may also conceal, defending the joker against anger and retaliation: a game is only a game.

What we share may be a lot like a traffic accident but we get one another. We are survivors of each other. We have been shark to one another, but also lifeboat. That counts for something.

There may not be one Truth - there may be several truths - but saying that is not to say that reality doesn't exist.

Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be.