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May Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a…
- We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and yet the spirit may well…
- I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may…
- Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation…
- The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away…
- Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
- We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
- It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may…
- A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
- Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy
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