May Quotes

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The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to… — Samuel Johnson
Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave… — Benjamin Franklin
To procrastinate seems inherent in man, for if you do to-day that you may enjoy to-morrow it is but deferring the enjoyment; so that to… — Benjamin Haydon
I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body,… — Alexander Shulgin
And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a… — Roger Penrose
No one has ever been able to control his thinking, although people may tell the story of how they have. I don't let go of… — Byron Katie
A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I… — Bruce Lee
Motherhood cannot finally be delegated. Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers...but when a child… — Erica Jong
Increase and widen your desires till nothing but reality can fulfill them. It is not desire that is wrong, but its narrowness and smallness. Desire… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
You don't have the game you played last year or last week. You only have today's game. It may be far from your best, but… — Walter Hagen
I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and… — Thomas Boswell
May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters. — Ben Hogan
You are meant to play the ball as it lies, a fact that may help to touch on your own objective approach to life. — Grantland Rice
The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway. — Mother Teresa
The doubt of an earnest, thoughtful, patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in… — John Lancaster Spalding
We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the contest, and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for… — Sam Houston
It will be hard for you not to ask why this must be. God knows why, and that may be as good to us as… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that… — Maria Edgeworth
You may have failed, but you are not a failure. That's what you did. That's not who you are. — Joel Osteen
Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction. Every decision you make, from… — Chris Hadfield
I'm not so sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said, "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward for civilization-that is, spiritual… — Booth Tarkington
But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows… — Hans Zinsser
It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite… — Winston Churchill
May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange… — Winston Churchill
Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest. — Theodosius Dobzhansky

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