May Quotes

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but cannot be taken away unless it is surrendered.
Michael J. Fox

Cannot, Away, Taken

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.
Blaise Pascal

Power, Powerful, Justice

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
Samuel Johnson

Courage, Greatest, Others

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
William Butler Yeats

Heart, Long, Sacrifice

It is not enough to merely defend democracy. To defend it may be to lose it; to extend it is to strengthen it. Democracy is not property; it is an idea.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Democracy, Enough, Lose

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

Beauty, Good, Great

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
Thomas Carlyle

Long, Winter, Summer

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on it.
Josh Billings

Love, God, Smile

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Happiness, Find, Follow

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.
Og Mandino

Life, Success, Power

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.
Frederick Douglass

Learning, Dangerous, Indeed

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.
Charles Dickens

Good, Temper, Credit

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson

Reality, Thinking, Travelling

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
Richard M. Nixon

Hate, Yourself, Win

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.
Mason Cooley

Mean, Silence, Acceptance

Countries that will not tax their elite who expect us to come in and help them serve their people are just not going to get the kind of help from us that historically they may have.
Hillary Clinton

Help, Expect, Tax

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.
Hillary Clinton

Politics, Today, Country

There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wish, Others, Pride

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Knowledge, Wisdom, Justice

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.
Walt Whitman

Good, God, Best

May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Honest, Confuse, Dissent

Don't ever know who you may meet, or just because a person may not be dressed up all fancy, don't mean they're not an important person. You just don't ever know who you're gonna meet in life. So that's why I look at everybody as equal. Can't just judge. I treat everybody with respect. Every man.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

Life, Respect, Judge

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. Tolkien

Wait, Secret, Road

The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious.
Sigmund Freud

Nature, Whatever, Psychical

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.
Noam Chomsky

Time, Government, Working

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
Viktor E. Frankl

Fear, True, Afraid

It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?
Jane Austen

Happy, Study, Moment

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.
Bertrand Russell

Nothing, Universe, Purpose

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.
Jon Bon Jovi

Time, Become, Miss

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

Said, Labor, Weapon

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