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Best May Quotes by Mark Twain
- A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps…
- Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.
- Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
- The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
- We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.
- I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the…
- A home without a cat — and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat — may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it…
- December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.
- It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened.
- Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer
- Write without pay until someone offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this as a sign that sawing wood…
- Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
- Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better.
- Probably there is an imperceptible touch of something permanent that one feels instinctively to adhere to true humour, whereas wit may be the mere conversational…
- If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the…
- The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. I would not interfere…
- It was on the 10th day of May - 1884 - that I confessed to age by mounting spectacles for the first time, and in…
- You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done.
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