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May Quotes by Jonathan Swift
- A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with equal delicacy, propriety, and…
- A stander-by may sometimes, perhaps, see more of the game than he that plays it.
- Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
- May you live all the days of your life.
- Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
- It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to…
- The tiny Lilliputians surmise that Gulliver's watch may be his god, because it is that which, he admits, he seldom does anything without consulting.
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