May Quotes - Page 325

As drops of bitter medicine, though minute, may have a salutary force, so words, though few and painful, uttered seasonably, may rouse the prostrate energies of those who meet misfortune with despondency.

Play may not have so high a place in the divine economy, but is has as legitimate a place as prayer.

Childhood may do without a grand purpose, but manhood cannot.

you may call a person vain, and they will smile; you may call them immoral, and they may even feel flattered - but call them narrow-minded and they have done with you.

A man may commit sin and yet be ignorant of it, and fancy himself innocent when he is guilty... We shall do well to remember that when we make our own miserably imperfect knowledge and consciousness the measure of our sinfulness, we are on very dangerous ground.

Actors who are lovers in real life are often incapable if playing the part of lovers to an audience. It is equally true that sympathy between actors who are not lovers may create a temporary emotion that is perfectly sincere.

Mystery is an inescapable ingredient of mathematics. Mathematics is full of unanswered questions, which far outnumber known theorems and results. It's the nature of mathematics to pose more problems than it can solve. Indeed, mathematics itself may be built on small islands of truth comprising the pieces of mathematics that can be validated by relatively short proofs. All else is speculation.

Evolution .. Just the right formula of science and comedy may get moviegoers through the door.

Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then carry with you for the rest of your life, trying to confirm it or extend or correct or deny it; but you can never eliminate it.

Just as Daniel Balalcazar said, it makes no sense to suffer in advance a misfortune that may never occur.

I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same.

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

I write not for your farthing, but to try. How I your farthing writers, may outvie.

Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.

Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they had stagnated their own cause.

The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the world will, every one of them, be traced back to science.

God may still be in His Heaven, but there is more than sufficient evidence that all is not right with the world.

A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers.

Protestant women may take the pill. Roman Catholic women must keep taking The Tablet.

It may be easier to get forgiveness than permission, but trust is harder to get back than both.

If I'm happy, I look happy; if I'm angry, I show it. Without worrying about how others may react.

Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.

But one may say something and yet not be able to do it. Try, for instance, lifting yourself up by the bootstraps.

Decision is a vastly important thing with a convicted sinner. He must choose, or he must be lost. If he will not do it, he may expect the Divine Spirit to depart from him, and leave him to his own way.

However, withered, I still feel myself to be exactly the same person I've always been. Hard to explain that to the young. we may look truly reptilian, but we're not a separate tribe.