Browse 29779 quotes about May.
“The light for drawing from nature should come from the North in order that it may not vary. And if you have it from the South, keep the window screened with cloth, so that with the sun shining the whole day the light may not vary. The height of the light so arranged as that every object shall cast a shadow on the ground of the same length as itself.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt: you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching.”
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“It may be an information age, but... It takes more work to earn more money to be overwhelmed by more information that does not equal knowledge or wisdom.”
Source: Epicurean Simplicity
“A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us well come what may.”
Source: Epicurean Simplicity
“Given the diverse raiment life sports, one never knows what the guises of the gods may be.”
Source: Epicurean Simplicity
“No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.”
Source: Miscellaneous works
“Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.”
Source: The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble]. [Another]
“For all may have, If they dare to try, a glorious life, or grave.”
Source: The poetical works of George Herbert
“Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose
“Why should I expect to be exempt from censure; the unfailing lot of an elevated station? My Heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best circumstances would permit; yet, I may have been very often mistaken in my judgment of the means.”
Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts
“I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.”
Source: Dorothy Parker in Her Own Words
“But conversation, choose what theme we may,
And chiefly when religion leads the way,
Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs,
Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers.”
“England with all thy faults, I love thee still-- My country! and, while yet a nook is left Where English minds and manners may be found, Shall be constrained to love thee.”
Source: The Life and Works of William Cowper: His life and letters by William Hayley. Now first completed by the introduction of Cowper's private correspondence
“The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may, And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away.”
Source: The Poetical Works of William Cowper
“That good diffused may more abundant grow.”
Source: The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel
“An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path. But he that has humanity, forewarned, Will turn aside and let the reptile live.”
Source: Poems. With an introductory essay by J. Montgomery
“Dejection of spirits, which may have prevented many a man from becoming an author, made me one. I find constant employment necessary, and therefore take care to be constantly employed. . . . When I can find no other occupation, I think; and when I think, I am very apt to do it in rhyme.”
Source: The Poetical Works of William Cowper: With Life ; Six Engravings on Steel
“Would I describe a preacher, I would express him simple, grave, sincere; In doctrine uncorrupt; in language plain, And plain in manner; decent, solemn, chaste, And natural in gesture; much impress'd Himself, as conscious of his awful charge, And anxious mainly that the flock he feeds May feel it too; affectionate in look, And tender in address, as well becomes A messenger of grace to guilty men.”
Source: The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence
“But truths on which depends our main concern, That 'tis our shame and misery not to learn, Shine by the side of every path we tread With such a lustre he that runs may read.”
Source: Poems
“A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration, well applied; But sedentary weavers of long tales Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails.”
Source: The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings
“Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, Esq: Including the Hymns and Translations from Madame Guion, Milton, Etc. ; with a Memoir of the Author
“And the tear that is wiped with a little address, May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.”
Source: The Poetical Works of William Cowper
“Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
“No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real. And it comes from the very nature of what judges do.”
“You know how often the turning down this street or that, the accepting or rejecting of an invitation, may deflect the whole current of our lives into some other channel. Are we mere leaves, fluttered hither and thither by the wind, or are we rather, with every conviction that we are free agents, carried steadily along to a definite and pre-determined end?”
Source: Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)
“Come what may, I am bound to think that all things are ordered for the best; though when the good is a furlong off, and we with our beetle eyes can only see three inches, it takes some confidence in general principles to pull us through.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)
“Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn! Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate!”
Source: The Story of Our First Parents: Selected from Milton's Paradise Lost: for the Use of Young Persons
“O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.”
Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton
“If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and Collins
“May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith.”
Source: Letters to a Young Poet
“Security of character would be like a compass, you know? Other people may say that this way is north, or this way might be north. But the compass just says -- north. That's what we count on.”
“Others may be able to accept standards from another, but an artist is a person who decides.”
“Justice may be blind, but we all know that diversity in the courts, as in all aspects of society, sharpens our vision and makes us a stronger nation.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001
“Forget what you may have heard about a digital divide or worries that the world is splintering into 'info haves' and 'info have-nots.' The fact is, technology fosters equality, and it's often the relatively cheap and mundane devices that do the most good.”
“The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached.”
Source: THE AGE OF REASON - Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology (Including
“Prejudice, like the spider, makes everywhere its home. It has neither taste nor choice of place, and all that it requires is room. If the one prepares her food by poisoning it to her palate and her use, the other does the same. Prejudice may be denominated the spider of the mind.”
Source: Life and Writings of Thomas Paine: Containing a Biography by Thomas Clio Rickman and Appreciations by Leslie Stephen, Lord Erskine, Paul Desjardins, Robert G. Ingersoll, Elbert Hubbard and Marilla M. Ricker
“I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.”
“O for ten years, that I may overwhelm / Myself in poesy; so I may do the deed / That my own soul has to itself decreed.”
“O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's observatory--whence the dell, In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell, May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep 'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell.”
Source: Keats: 'Ode to a Nightingale' and Other Poems
“O, sorrow! Why dost borrow Heart's lightness from the merriment of May?”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of John Keats (Illustrated)
“And shade the violets, That they may bind the moss in leafy nets.”
Source: Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard
“Chess may be the deepest, least exhaustible of pastimes, but it is nothing more. As for a chess genius, he is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.”
“May the Lord bless you real good.”
Source: America's hour of decision: featuring a life story of Billy Graham, and stories of his evangelistic campaigns in Portland, Ore., Minneapolis, Atlanta, Fort Worth, Shreveport, La., Memphis, and the Rose Bowl, Pasadena, California
“We need to be reminded that there is nothing morbid about honestly confronting the fact of life's end, and preparing for it so that we may go gracefully and peacefully.”
“One must learn an inner solitude, where or with whomsoever he may be. He must learn to penetrate things and find God there, to get a strong impression of God firmly fixed on his mind.”
Source: Celebrated 14th Century Mystic and Scholastic Meister Eckhart
“God may be a matter of indifference to the evolutionists, and a life beyond may have no charm for them, but the mass of mankind will continue to worship their creator and continue to find comfort in the promise of their Savior that he has gone to prepare a place for them.”
Source: William Jennings Bryan on Orthodoxy, Modernism, and Evolution
“The dynamo of our economic system is self-interest which may range from mere petty greed to admirable types of self-expression.”
“The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought.”
“See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie.”
Source: Emblems