Quotes about may
may knaves knavery
Even knaves may be made good for something. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
may doe dungeons
One may live tranquilly in a dungeon; but does life consist in living quietly?
may rooms trouble
Thoughts take up no room. When they are right, they afford a portable pleasure, which one may travel with, without any trouble or encumbrance. Jeremy Collier
may six world
God may have created the world in six days, but while he was resting on the seventh, Beelzebub popped up and did this place. Jeremy Clarkson
may fisherman
Anyone can be a fisherman in May. Ernest Hemingway
may stones smooth
Time may smooth the stone, but time will never wear it away. Erin Hunter
may world birth
Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves from this world, all may even have to be suffered through again - the premature birth may not contribute to the production of another being, which must be begun again from the beginning. Florence Nightingale
may wells
The life you save may very well be your own. Flannery O'Connor
may killers jace
I may be a killer," Jace said, "but I know what I am. Can you say the same? Cassandra Clare
may lost wells
For as is often the happenstance with that which is precious and lost, when you find him again, he may well not be quite as you left him.
may said unlikely
You may choose your friends, but not your unlikely saviors,” Magnus said cheerfully.
may majestic emotion
Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner. George Eliot
may done better-yourself
There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done.
may victim executioners
Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner. Gore Vidal
mayors
Craig Robinson is basically the mayor of wherever he goes. Gillian Jacobs
may tomorrow
Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it. Jamaica Kincaid
may fiction crime
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers Jacques Barzun
may cases makers
I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought. J. R. R. Tolkien
may wonderful source
And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined.
may false-hope middle-earth
It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope.
may doe traitor
A traitor may betray himself and do good he does not intend.
may honest burglars
I may be a burglar...but I'm an honest one, I hope, more or less.
may looks said
Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along. To look ahead,' said he. And what brought you back in the nick of time?' Looking behind,' said he.
may hateful tyranny
We may indeed in counsel point to the higher road, but we cannot compel any free creature to walk upon it. That leadeth to tyranny, which disfigureth good and maketh it seem hateful.
may strange tales
Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway.
may angling
Angling may be saidtobe so likemathematics, that itcan never be fully learnt. Izaak Walton
may goodness be-good
We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good. Isaac Barrow
may matter ornaments
The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments of oratory. Isaac Disraeli
may quotations
One may quote till one compiles.
may robots harm
A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. Isaac Asimov
may littles way
I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct.
may prudent unlucky
There are no accidents so unlucky but the prudent may draw some advantage from them. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
may littles looks
We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.