Top 500 May Quotes

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

Beauty is nature’s brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.

I say to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

How to play music may be known. At the commencement of the piece, all the parts should sound together. As it proceeds, they should be in harmony while severally distinct and flowing without break, and thus on to the conclusion.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.

Biology sometimes reveals its fundamental principles through what may seem at first to be arcane and bizarre.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.

The greatest tragedy in mankind’s entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamental change in world-view, at least for those who broadly share the world view I am presenting in this book.

Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it.

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.

Total war is no longer war waged by all members of one national community against all those of another. It is total… because it may well involve the whole world.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability – the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy – to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

It may be those who do most, dream most.

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

If they’re not talking about you, you’re not doing something; you’re not doing anything. So if they’re talking about you, you may be doing something right. And when they talk bad about you, you just use it for motivation.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

I have a hat. It is graceful and feminine and give me a certain dignity, as if I were attending a state funeral or something. Someday I may get up enough courage to wear it, instead of carrying it.

The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.

Today is your own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.

You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.

Choice of attention – to pay attention to this and ignore that – is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences, whatever they may be.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.

I hope to continue to inspire our nation’s youth to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and math so they, too, may reach for the stars.

I may be dumb, but I’m not stupid.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Never give up, and be confident in what you do. There may be tough times, but the difficulties which you face will make you more determined to achieve your objectives and to win against all the odds.

Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.

There is always some kid who may be seeing me for the first time. I owe him my best.

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

Take your victories, whatever they may be, cherish them, use them, but don’t settle for them.

This may sound a bit naive, but I got here by believing in big dreams.

I am a doctor – it’s a profession that may be considered a special mission, a devotion. It calls for involvement, respect and willingness to help all other people.

Socialism states that you owe me something simply because I exist. Capitalism, by contrast, results in a sort of reality-forced altruism: I may not want to help you, I may dislike you, but if I don’t give you a product or service you want, I will starve. Voluntary exchange is more moral than forced redistribution.

We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.

We’re put here on Earth to learn our own lessons. No one can tell you what your lessons are; it is part of your personal journey to discover them. On these journeys we may be given a lot, or just a little bit, of the things we must grapple with, but never more than we can handle.

Hence the saying: If you know the enemy and you know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt; if you know Heaven and you know Earth, you may make your victory complete.

If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today – but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.