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May Quotes by James Boswell
- A page of my journal is like a cake of portable soup. A little may be diffused into a considerable portion.
- I, who have no sisters or brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends.
- Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments, at which those who may…
- Wine makes a man better pleased with himself. I do not say that it makes him more pleasing to others. Sometimes it does. But the…
- For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among…
- I have discovered that we may be in some degree whatever character we choose. Besides, practice forms a man to anything....
- I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.
- My readers, who may at first be apt to consider Quotation as downright pedantry, will be surprised when I assure them, that next to the…
- I am now to offer some thoughts upon that sameness or familiarity which we frequently find between passages in different authors without quotation. This may…
- When we know exactly all a man's views and how he comes to speak and act so and so, we lose any respect for him,…
- A companion loves some agreeable qualities which a man may possess, but a friend loves the man himself.
- A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
More May Quotes
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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