May Quotes

20575 May quotes by 7930 unique authors

Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand… — Virgil
We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may… — Lewis H. Lapham
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward. — Henry David Thoreau
However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money. — Raymond Chandler
A single idea - the sudden flash of a thought - may be worth a million dollars. — Robert Collier
And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend. — John Milton
Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect. — John Ruskin
Scripture tells us to run with endurance the race that is set before us. As we do, may God hold close those who have been… — Barack Obama
Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made… — Thomas a Kempis
Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin. — Christian Nestell Bovee
I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a… — Benjamin Franklin
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or… — Iris Murdoch
A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous. — Thomas Hobbes
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be;… — George Eliot
More knowledge may be gained of a man's real character by a short conversation with one of his servants than from a formal and studied… — Samuel Johnson
We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we… — Max Gunther
A man who tries to surpass another may perhaps succeed in equaling inot actually surpassing him, but one who merely follows can never quite come… — Quintilian
There is no kind obondage which life lays upon us that may not yield both sweetness and strength; and nothing reveals a man's character more… — Hamilton Wright Mabie
This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed… — Ayn Rand
No star is lost once we have seen, We always may be what we might have been. — Adelaide Anne Procter
One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for… — Benjamin Franklin
Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is… — Maya Angelou
Gardeners celebrate the influence of time. If we have had a late cold spring followed by a desiccating drought, autumn may be the most soft… — Susan Hill

Who Wrote These May Quotes

7,930 authors contributed a total of 20,575 May Quotes, led by these top contributors: