We think of the noble object for which the professor appears to-night, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.
Stephen Leacock

Golf may be played on Sunday, not being a game within the view of the law, but being a form of moral effort.
Stephen Leacock

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
Anne Frank

The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all private property.
Karl Marx

Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor.
Karl Marx

The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it.
Karl Marx

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
Charles de Gaulle

If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.
Donald Trump

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
George S. Patton

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

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
Saint Augustine

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint Augustine

Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
Langston Hughes

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
Voltaire

Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
Voltaire

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.
Jane Austen

Comedy may be big business but it isn't pretty.
Steve Martin

Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.
Marcus Garvey

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.
Lance Armstrong