May Quotes - Page 78

INCOMPATIBILITY, n. In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination. Incompatibility may, however, consist of a meek-eyed matron living just around the corner. It has even been known to wear a moustache.

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

What is good today may be a cliche tomorrow.

Relegating grizzlies to Alaska is about like relegating happiness heaven; one may never get there.

Twentieth-century art may start with nothing, but it flourishes by virtue of its belief in itself, in the possibility of control over what seems essentially uncontrollable, in the coherence of the inchoate, and in its ability to create its own values.

Don't neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.

To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or possible observation an experiential proposition. Then we may say that it is the mark of a genuine factual proposition, not that it should be equivalent to an experiential proposition, or any finite number of experiential propositions, but simply that some experiential propositions can be deduced from it in conjunction with certain other premises without being deducible from those other premises alone.

Neither rejoice nor lament prematurely; for whatever may happen, all will be well if we only have health; for happiness exists--merely in the imagination.

A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.

The beautiful thing about my intelligence is that it doesn't really come in one specific department. So even if something hasn't happened to me, I have information on how to get you through whatever you may be going through.

You may be less likely to pick on someone if you dont know whats in their briefcase or purse.

The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.

We may repeat the awful revolutionary history of the 20th century because of the vulnerability of social movements to demagoguery.

I may be boring, but that's okay; I don't want to hard-sell myself.

Our neighbors the Hollanders may be our example in this case; who whilst we have been driving a private trade from port to port, of which we are likely now to be deprived, have conquered so much land in the East and West Indies that it may be said of them, as of the Spaniards, That the sun never sets upon their dominions.

If men must beg to live, May the Creator also go wandering and perish.

Sticks and stones may break bones, but the Gat will kill you quicker.

Confidence, once lost or betrayed, can never be restored again to the same measure; and we learn too late in life that our acts of deception are irrevocable - they may be forgiven, but they cannot be forgotten by their victims.

The things that come to those that wait may be the things left by those that got there first.

Misunderstanding of probability may be the greatest of all impediments to scientific literacy.

You may die a hundred deaths without a break in the mental turmoil. Or, you may keep your body and die only in the mind. The death of the mind is the birth of wisdom.

To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.

From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."

She may be cute, but she's just a substitute.

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.