May Quotes

• A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Money
  • Bad
  • Health

• The laws that forbid the carrying of arms... serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.

  

  Cesare Beccaria
  • Men
  • Law
  • Arms

• You consciously look after yourself, whatever that may be to you, whether it's going out for a few drinks and a bit of dinner, or just hitting the couch and watching TV, or going to the gym or yoga class. Just being aware that there's a potential for you to be in it and respecting wherever you find yourself is good enough.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Good
  • Yoga
  • Gym

• Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up.

  

  Marge Kennedy
  • Up
  • May
  • Remember

• What they did was to make a pilot and it may well go to series at the next festival but I don't have any news on that. It's already been on Paramount actually, but as it's on Paramount it'll probably be on several more times... hopefully.

  

  Jo Brand
  • May

• As a nation, we may take pride in the fact that we are soft-hearted; but we cannot afford to be soft-headed.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • May
  • Pride

• Well, you know, any defense force worth its salt has to be able to deal with uncertainty, has to be able to deal with events that we may not have planned for.

  

  Leon Panetta
  • May

• My fight comes up May 27 ... I'm not going to worry about Georges until after that.

  

  Matt Hughes
  • May
  • Fight

• There cannot any one moral Rule be propos'd, whereof a Man may not justly demand a Reason.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • May
  • Moral

• Men generally pay for all expenses on a date ... either sex, however, may bring a little gift, its value to be determined by the bizarrness of the sexual request to be made later that evening.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Men
  • Value
  • Sex

• He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.

  

  John Milton
  • Soul
  • Light
  • Dark

• He that commands the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Great
  • War
  • Sea

• The Internet's distinct configuration may have made cyberattacks easy to launch, but it has also kindled the flame of freedom.

  

  Jonathan Zittrain
  • May
  • Freedom

• The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Soul

• Nothing will sustain you more potently than the power to recognize in your humdrum routine, as perhaps it may be thought, the true poetry of life.

  

  William Osler
  • May
  • Routine
  • Humdrum

• Enjoy your time in public service. It may well be one of the most interesting and challenging times of your life.

  

  Donald Rumsfeld
  • Life
  • Time
  • Interesting

• I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I do desire to understand Your truth a little, that truth that my heart believes and loves. I do not seek to understand that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.

  

  Anselm of Canterbury
  • Believe
  • Heart
  • Truth

• A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • May

• Absolve me, teach me, purify me, strengthen me: take me to Thyself, that I may be Thine and Thine only.

  

  Joseph Barber Lightfoot
  • May

• Satire, though it may exaggerate the vice it lashes, is not justified in creating it in order that it may be lashed.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • May

• People may see me as a luxurious star, but I am always thinking I can be represented by my psychological world that is fraught with vanity, loneliness, and always feels inadequate.

  

  G-Dragon
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a striking complacency when it comes to their everyday environment and the growing calamity that it represents.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • Growing
  • Environment
  • Everyday

• We may have had music before we had a word for it.

  

  Daniel Levitin
  • Music
  • May

• I want to continuously instigate, whatever it may be.

  

  G-Dragon
  • May

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