May Quotes

20575 May quotes by 7930 unique authors

I am afraid I shall not find him, but I shall still look for him, for if he exists, he may be appreciative of my… — Jules Renard
Americans think of themselves collectively as a huge rescue squad on twenty-four hour call to any spot on the globe where dispute and conflict may… — Eldridge Cleaver
One may do whatever one likes. In art, the only thing is, to make sure that one does like it. — Robert Browning
Wonder at the first sight of works of art may be the effect of ignorance and novelty; but real admiration and permanent delight in them… — William Hazlitt
Beauty may be perceived in any scene by one with sympathy and understanding. Beauty is in the mind. — Walter J. Phillips
By means of microscopic observation and astronomical projection the lotus flower can become the foundation for an entire theory of the universe and an agent… — Yukio Mishima
The more and more each is impelled by that which is intuitive, or the relying upon the soul force within, the greater, the farther, the… — Edgar Cayce
By the age of three, the child has already laid down the foundations of his personality as a human being, and only then does he… — Maria Montessori
Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may… — Bertrand Russell
The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself. — Wystan Hugh Auden
There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes… — Robert Benchley
If Parliament may take from me one shilling in the pound, what security have I for the other nineteen? — Richard Henry Lee
We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct. — Benjamin Franklin
If thou may not continually gather thyself together, do it sometime at least once a day, morning or evening. — Thomas a Kempis
Three may keep counsel, if two be away. — John Heywood
Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open. — Alfred North Whitehead
The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument. — Arthur Guiterman
We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come. — George Santayana
I felt like my vote was the vote that put [Obama] into office. It was down to one vote, and that was going to be… — Puff Daddy
A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals. — Confucius
Whatever may be the general endeavor of a community to render its members equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Riches may enable us to confer favors, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give. — Charles Caleb Colton
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase. — Charles Caleb Colton

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