May Quotes

• In every stock-jobbing swindle everyone knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbour, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Time
  • Fall
  • Gold

• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• [Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Good
  • Bad
  • True

• I'm a sinner just like everybody else and I have my faults and I've been through my dark times in my life to where I wasn't walking the walk and talking the talk, or I may have been talking the talk, but I wasn't walking the walk.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Life
  • Dark
  • Walking

• Ambiguity lurks in generality and may thus become an instrument of severity.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • May

• All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Travel
  • Learn
  • Enjoy

• If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

  

  Maurice Chevalier
  • May
  • Perfect

• Our aim may be as high as the endless sky, but we should have a resolve in our minds to walk ahead, hand-in-hand for victory will be ours.

  

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee
  • High
  • Hand
  • Sky

• If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

  

  Les Brown
  • Live
  • Past
  • Strong

• The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.

  

  Irving Penn
  • World
  • Interesting
  • Joy

• They say that the commons of England would first destroy the king's friends and afterward himself, and then bring the Duke of York to be king so that by their false means and lies they may make him to hate and destroy his friends, and cherish his false traitors.

  

  Jack Cade
  • Friends
  • Hate
  • Lies

• Although most Americans apparently loathe inflation, Yale economists have argued that a little inflation may be necessary to grease the wheels of the labor market and enable efficiency-enhancing changes in relative pay to occur without requiring nominal wage cuts by workers.

  

  Janet Yellen
  • May
  • Grease

• Most immigration opponents are loath to admit it, at least publicly, but they are worried that the huge influx of Hispanics will somehow change America for the worse. But those fears are unfounded. Some may talk about the browning of America, but immigrants are a net positive.

  

  Linda Chavez
  • America
  • Positive
  • Immigration

• More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but a handful may even be worth a book.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • Good
  • Great
  • Book

• I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest number. It means in its nakedness that in order to achieve the supposed good of 51 per cent the interests of 49 per cent may be, or rather, should be sacrificed. It is a heartless doctrine and has done harm to humanity.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Done

• Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Words
  • Wisdom
  • Wise

• New York may be the city that never sleeps, but Shanghai doesn't even sit down, and not just because there is no room.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • City
  • New
  • New York

• There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • People
  • Country
  • Day

• Being points beyond itself. Accustomed to think in terms of space, the expression 'being points beyond itself' may be taken to denote a higher point in space. What is meant, however, is a higher category than being: the power of maintaining being.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Power
  • Space
  • Taken

• Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Good
  • Great
  • Character

• A boat may stay in water, but water should not stay in boat. A spiritual aspirant may live in the world, but the world should not live within him.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Live
  • Water

• If you live for your children, they may be smitten down and leave you desolate, or, what is far worse, they may desert you and leave you worse than childless in a cold and unfeeling world.

  

  Matthew Simpson
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• May everyone live, And may everyone die. Hello, my love, And my love, Goodbye.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Live
  • Die
  • Goodbye

• Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction

  

  William James
  • Extremes
  • Distress
  • Ease

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