The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
Sigmund Freud

It may be those who do most, dream most.
Stephen Leacock

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

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.
Martin Luther

I shall never be a heretic; I may err in dispute, but I do not wish to decide anything finally; on the other hand, I am not bound by the opinions of men.
Martin Luther

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.
Martin Luther

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
Rodney Dangerfield

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
Ansel Adams

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams

Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion... in private self-defense.
John Adams

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
John Adams

I have accepted a seat in the House of Representatives, and thereby have consented to my own ruin, to your ruin, and to the ruin of our children. I give you this warning that you may prepare your mind for your fate.
John Adams

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

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas Paine

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.
Leonardo da Vinci

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
Samuel Goldwyn

The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.
Edgar Allan Poe

May you live every day of your life.
Jonathan Swift

May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift