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May Quotes by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.
- The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it
- A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you…
- Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you…
- Nine times out of ten it is over the Bridge of Sighs that we pass the narrow gulf from youth to manhood. That interval is…
- To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.
- Say what we will, you may be sure that ambition is an error; its wear and tear of heart are never recompensed, -it steals away…
- Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.
- They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell…
- Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may…
- In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best…
- Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do…
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong