May Quotes

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Greedy, General, Mankind

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

Strong, Live, Past

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

Yourself, Enemy, Saying

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge

Work, Time, Experience

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken

Faith, Belief, Defined

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
Aldous Huxley

Freedom, Before, After

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.
Aldous Huxley

Truth, Lie, Thrilling

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.
Aldous Huxley

God, Strength, Travel

It pays to know the enemy - not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend.
Margaret Thatcher

Time, Enemy, Friend

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.
Vincent Van Gogh

Soul, Sit, Smoke

What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Learned, Training, Another

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.
William James

Find, Reason, Rather

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Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Phillips Brooks

Great, Character, Made

Culture, what you believe, what you value, how you live matters. Now, as fundamental as these principles are, they may become topics of democratic debates from time to time, so it is today with the enduring institution of marriage. Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman.
Mitt Romney

Marriage, Time, Today

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
H. L. Mencken

Live, Hell, Able

It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
M. Russell Ballard

Truth, Easy, Stand

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
Sigmund Freud

Great, Mind, Sun

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.
Thomas J. Watson

Time, Good, Yourself

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.
Ali ibn Abi Talib

Men, Knowledge, Blessed

The president may be a nice guy, but he's just over his head.
Mitt Romney

Nice, President, Guy

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Edmund Burke

Justice, Humanity, Reason

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.
T. S. Eliot

Time, Poetry, Feelings

It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.
Margaret Thatcher

Eggs, Hen, Crows

Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.
Joyce Meyer

Time, God, Feeling

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
Carl Sandburg

Society, Lost, Down

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
Jane Austen

Woman, Done, Her

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
H. L. Mencken

Idea, Quite, Believes

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

Good, Saying, Ways

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke

Through, Nation, Rat

Naturally, when one makes progressive steps, there may be some who see it as a betrayal of their goals and interests.
Louis Farrakhan

Betrayal, Makes, Goals

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