May Quotes - Page 62

He may have gone to bed three hours ago, but he knows who he is playing. You can rest assured that he hasn't slept a wink.

A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

A right , in the abstract, is a fact ; it is not a thing to be given, established, or conferred; it is. Of the exercise of a right power may deprive me; of the right itself, never.

Ancient wisdom: deal in personal trust; your word is your bond; avoid extremes; treat the money you invest for others as something sacred; don't take any more perks than you would wish others to take; don't borrow what you couldn't suddenly pay back; imagine the worse case financial scenario and expect it very may well happen; the wealthier you become the more humble you should act.

A mind always employed is always happy.

The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

If you have let pride get the better of you, then you have already lost, but if you grab pride by the scruff of the neck and ride it like a stallion, then you may have already won.

In the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune.

If you know from history the danger, then part of the danger is over because it may not take you by surprise as it did your ancestors.

A man may be outlawed for the sake of a fish net he has never seen.

I want my sex to claim nothing from their brethren but what their brethren may justly claim from them.

Oh, here he comes now, the May West of pro-wrestling.

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy

I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.

In life your dreams may not come true, but sooner or later one of your nightmares will.

What is right has to win the day over what we may see as rights.

When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.

Whatever may happen the sun will rise tomorrow as it rose to-day, beneficent and serene.

When you take your troubles to God, you may have them but they don't have you.

May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.

Wittgenstein's ruler: Unless you have confidence in the ruler's reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler.

May God give back to you in love all the love you have given.

Have you not observed that faith is generally strongest in those whose character may be called the weakest?

Come what may, I have been blest.

Speech may be silver but silence is golden. Traders with the golden touch do not talk about their success.