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May Quotes by Patrick O'Brian
- The Navy speaks in symbols and you may suit what meaning you choose to the words.
- But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not…
- ...I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform parliament or prevent…
- I do not say that all lawyers are bad, but I do maintain that the general tendency is bad: standing up in a court for…
- You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age equals…
- I am in favour of leaving people alone, however imperfect their polity may seem. It appears to me that you must not tell other nations…
- Why, sir," said he, looking about him, "what splendour I see: gold lace, breeches, cocked hats. Allow me to recommend a sandwich. And would you…
- A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be…
More May Quotes
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. — William Shakespeare
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt