May Quotes

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Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such… — Charles Caleb Colton
Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances… — Marcel Proust
All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be… — John Ruskin
We may fail of our happiness, strive we ever so bravely; but we are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances… — Agnes Repplier
Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it… — Charles Caleb Colton
Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true; but, in the second place, whether he… — Samuel Johnson
The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people. — John Stuart Mill
There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones. — Albert Camus
You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men… — Khalil Gibran
There may be talent without position, but there is no position without some kind of talent. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is no well defined boundary line between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he… — O. Henry
We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the… — Andre Gide
A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice. — Samuel Johnson
Be yourself and think for yourself, and while your conclusions may not be infallible they will be nearer right than the inclusions forced upon you… — Elbert Hubbard
I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention. — Michel de Montaigne
It is a part of English hypocrisy or English reserve, that whilst we are fluent enough in grumbling about small inconveniences, we insist on making… — Max Beerbohm
The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try. — William Shakespeare
Facts are all accidents. They all might have been different. They all may become different. They may all collapse altogether. — George Santayana
A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready… — Charles Lamb
I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless. — John Lyly
Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination. — Andre Gide
Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
It may be a blessing in disguise...Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it. Haitians were… — Pat Robertson
A man may have strong humanitarian and democratic principles, but if he happens to have been brought up as a bath-taking, shirt-changing lover of fresh… — Aldous Huxley
Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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