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May Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
- We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate…
- Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
- Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and…
- A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.
- The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.
- The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the…
- When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by…
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