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May Quotes by Francis Bacon
- Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it…
- I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at…
- There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found…
- For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.
- A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
- There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season.
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- 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