--- title: "18 May Quotes By Thomas Browne" description: "18 May quotes by Thomas Browne. Plus more from Thomas Browne and more May sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/160/thomas-browne-2006_delight_since-women-do-most-delight-in-revenge-i_1958318.png" --- > [Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/since-women-do-most-delight-in-revenge-it-may-seem-but-feminine/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/160/thomas-browne-2006_delight_since-women-do-most-delight-in-revenge-i_1958318.png) > [Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/festination-may-prove-precipitation-deliberating-delay-may-be-wise/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/892/thomas-browne-2006_being-wise_festination-may-prove-precipitation-deli_1592497.png) > [Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/content-may-dwell-in-all-stations-to-be-low-but-above-contempt-may-be/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/000/thomas-browne-2006_contempt_content-may-dwell-in-all-stations-to-be_1336842.png) > [A man may be in as just possession of the truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/a-man-may-be-in-as-just-possession-of-the-truth-as-of-a-city-and-yet/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db5/thomas-browne-2006_cities_a-man-may-be-in-as-just-possession-of-th_1750634.png) > [To be content with death may be better than to desire it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/to-be-content-with-death-may-be-better-than-to-desire-it/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/02e/thomas-browne-2006_better_to-be-content-with-death-may-be-better-t_1267570.png) > [There is nothing strictly immortal, but immortality. Whatever hath no beginning may be confident of no end.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/there-is-nothing-strictly-immortal-but-immortality-whatever-hath-no/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c08/thomas-browne-2006_be-confident_there-is-nothing-strictly-immortal-but-i_1926546.png) > [For there is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion, and thus far we may maintain the music of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/for-there-is-a-music-wherever-there-is-a-harmony-order-or-proportion/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/45f/thomas-browne-2006_harmony_for-there-is-a-music-wherever-there-is-a_2261232.png) > [That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny; but I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/that-miracles-have-been-i-do-believe-that-they-may-yet-be-wrought-by/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a83/thomas-browne-2006_belief_that-miracles-have-been-i-do-believe-tha_283712.png) > [We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/we-term-sleep-a-death-by-which-we-may-be-literally-said-to-die-daily/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b89/thomas-browne-2006_dare_we-term-sleep-a-death-by-which-we-may-be_3157124.png) > [There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/there-are-mystically-in-our-faces-certain-characters-which-carry-in/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4b2/thomas-browne-2006_certain_there-are-mystically-in-our-faces-certai_714139.png) > [Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/quotation-mistakes-inadvertency-expedition-and-human-lapses-may-make/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da9/thomas-browne-2006_adventure_quotation-mistakes-inadvertency-expediti_893179.jpg) > [There are mystically in our faces certain characters which carry in them the motto of our souls, wherein he that cannot read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/there-are-mystically-in-our-faces-certain-characters-which-carry-in-2/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/54a/thomas-browne-2006_cannot_there-are-mystically-in-our-faces-certai_2322914.png) > [There is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/there-is-music-wherever-there-is-harmony-order-and-proportion-and/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0df/thomas-browne-2006_ears_there-is-music-wherever-there-is-harmony_1181042.png) > [Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/where-we-desire-to-be-informed-tis-good-to-contest-with-men-above/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e8e/thomas-browne-2006_arguing_where-we-desire-to-be-informed-tis-good_1811815.png) > [Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/think-not-thy-time-short-in-this-world-since-the-world-itself-is-not/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/572/thomas-browne-2006_duration_think-not-thy-time-short-in-this-world-s_136950.png) > [Now with my friend I desire not to share or participate, but to engross his sorrows, that, by making them mine own,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/now-with-my-friend-i-desire-not-to-share-or-participate-but-to/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/455/thomas-browne-2006_circles_now-with-my-friend-i-desire-not-to-share_1699289.jpg) > [... indeed, what reason may not go to school to the wisdom of bees, ants, and spiders? What wise hand teacheth them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/indeed-what-reason-may-not-go-to-school-to-the-wisdom-of-bees-ants/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f02/thomas-browne-2006_amazed_indeed-what-reason-may-not-go-to-school_3188317.jpg) > [. . . indeed what reason may not go to Schoole to the wisdome of Bees, Ants, and Spiders? what wise hand…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/indeed-what-reason-may-not-go-to-schoole-to-the-wisdome-of-bees-ants/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d44/thomas-browne-2006_amazed_indeed-what-reason-may-not-go-to-schoole_2981637.jpg) ## Other authors on May ## More by Thomas Browne > [Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/be-substantially-great-in-thyself-and-more-than-thou-appearest-unto/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) > [Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/man-is-a-noble-animal-splendid-in-ashes-and-pompous-in-the-grave/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) > [Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/not-to-be-content-with-life-is-the-unsatisfactory-state-of-those/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) > [“It is we that are blind, not Fortune: because our eye is too dim to discover the mystery of her effects, we foolishly paint…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/it-is-we-that-are-blind-not-fortune-because-our-eye-is-too-dim-to/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) > [“That there must be heresies is true, not onely in our Church, but also in any other; even in Doctrines hereticall there will be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/that-there-must-be-heresies-is-true-not-onely-in-our-church-but-also/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) > [Think it more satisfactory to live richly than die rich.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/think-it-more-satisfactory-to-live-richly-than-die-rich/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) > [Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/think-not-thy-time-short-in-this-world-since-the-world-itself-is-not/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) > [Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/let-him-have-the-key-of-thy-heart-who-hath-the-lock-of-his-own/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) > [“There is a musicke where-ever there is a harmony, order or proportion; and thus farre we may maintain the musick of the spheares; for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/there-is-a-musicke-where-ever-there-is-a-harmony-order-or-proportion/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) > [Death is the cure for all diseases.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/death-is-the-cure-for-all-diseases/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) > [Lord deliver me from myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/lord-deliver-me-from-myself/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) > [The mortalist enemy unto knowledge, and that which hath done the greatest execution unto truth, has been a preemptory adhesion unto authority.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/the-mortalist-enemy-unto-knowledge-and-that-which-hath-done-the/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) > [To ruminate upon evils, to make critical notes upon injuries, and be too acute in their apprehensions, is to add unto our own tortures,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/to-ruminate-upon-evils-to-make-critical-notes-upon-injuries-and-be/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) > [That miracles have been, I do believe; that they may yet be wrought by the living, I do not deny; but I have no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/that-miracles-have-been-i-do-believe-that-they-may-yet-be-wrought-by/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) > [We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/we-all-labour-against-our-own-cure-for-death-is-the-cure-of-all/) [Thomas Browne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-browne/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/may/thomas-browne/#itemlist", "name": "18 May Quotes By Thomas Browne", "numberOfItems": 18, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Browne" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/since-women-do-most-delight-in-revenge-it-may-seem-but-feminine/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/160/thomas-browne-2006_delight_since-women-do-most-delight-in-revenge-i_1958318.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/160/thomas-browne-2006_delight_since-women-do-most-delight-in-revenge-i_1958318.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/160/thomas-browne-2006_delight_since-women-do-most-delight-in-revenge-i_1958318.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Since women do most delight in revenge, it may seem but feminine manhood to be vindictive.” — Thomas Browne", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Thomas Browne" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-browne/festination-may-prove-precipitation-deliberating-delay-may-be-wise/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/892/thomas-browne-2006_being-wise_festination-may-prove-precipitation-deli_1592497.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/892/thomas-browne-2006_being-wise_festination-may-prove-precipitation-deli_1592497.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/892/thomas-browne-2006_being-wise_festination-may-prove-precipitation-deli_1592497.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Festination may prove Precipitation; Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.” — Thomas Browne", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Content may dwell in all stations. 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