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May Quotes by James Anthony Froude
- English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as…
- Now, to a single-minded man, who is either brave enough or reckless enough to surrender himself wholly to one idea, and look neither right nor…
- Look not to have your sepulchre built in after ages hy the same foolish hands which still ever destroy the living prophet. Small honour for…
- I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me…
- Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old…
- Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know…
- The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be…
- A dreamer he was, and ever would be. Yet dreaming need not injure us, if it do but take its turn with waking; and even…
- It may be from some moral obliquity in myself, or from some strange disease; but for me, and I should think too for every human…
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