May Quotes

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There may or may not be atheists in foxholes, but I'm certain there are none in the Ku Klux Klan. — George Carlin
If they are good workmen, they may be of Asia, Africa, or Europe. They may be Mohometans, Jews or Christians of any Sect, or they… — George Washington
Nature is like a beautiful woman that may be as delightfully and as truly known at a certain distance as upon a closer view; as… — George Santayana
A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain… — Abraham Lincoln
As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades. — Frank Moore Colby
It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the… — Winston Churchill
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Two evils, of almost equal weight, may befall the man of erudition; never to be listened to, and to be listened to always. — Walter Savage Landor
Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up. — John Ruskin
That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind;… — Samuel Johnson
Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it. — Robert Penn Warren
God may have mercy, but we won't. — John McCain
Fools! You think of "god" as a sentient being. God is the word used to represent a force. This force created nothing, it just helps… — Diogenes
Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we… — Alan Moore
Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For every force charged by God, may He be exalted, with some business is an angel put in charge... — Maimonides
Our valleys may be filled with foes and tears; but we can lift our eyes to the hills to see God and the angels, heaven's… — Billy Graham
In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute… — Diane Ackerman
A man may take care of a furnace for twenty-five years and still forget to duck his head when he starts going down the cellar… — Robert Benchley
Granted the endless variations of moral customs, still the essential standards persist. As in a scientific laboratory, all else may change but the standards are… — Harry Emerson Fosdick
There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be… — Abraham Lincoln
Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage in a departmental canteen. — John le Carre
Let all thy joys be as the month of May,And all thy days be as a marriage day. — Francis Quarles
The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out… — Robert A. Heinlein

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