Mays Quotes (page 104)

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• memorial
• summer time
• bird

I remember my childhood names for grasses and secret flowers. I remember where a toad may live and what time the birds awaken in the summer -- and what trees and seasons smelled like -- how people looked and walked and smelled even. The memory of odors is very rich. John Steinbeck

• god
• may
• gods

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of God. Ralph Waldo Emerson

• may
• mock
• assault

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered. Michael J. Fox

• manly
• library
• hope

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man T. S. Eliot

• friendship
• real
• end

Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended T. S. Eliot

• men
• reading
• animal

The flesh of animals who feed excursively is allowed to have a higher flavour than that of those who are cooped up. May there not be the same difference between men who read as their taste prompts and men who are confined in cells and colleges to stated tasks? Samuel Butler

• beautiful
• sentimental
• death

I have, for my own projected works and ideas, only the silliest and dewiest of hopes; no matter what, I am romantic enough or sentimental enough to wish to contribute something to life’s fabric, to the world’s beauty.... [S]imply to live does not justify existence, for life is a mere gesture on the surface of the earth, and death a return to that from which we had never been wholly separated; but oh to leave a trace, no matter how faint, of that brief gesture! For someone, some day, may find... Frank O'Hara

• humanity
• power god
• may

No matter what God's power may be, the first aspect of God is never that of the absolute Master, the Almighty. It is that of the God who puts himself on our human level and limits himself. Jacques Ellul

• evening
• may
• finding

We may even find out why the duck-billed platypus.**Not why is it anything. Just why it is. Terry Prachett

• thinking
• small
• may

You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind. Yoko Ono

• feeling
• little
• may

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us kinship where all is represented as separation."(Defy the Space That Separates, The Nation, October 7, 1996) Adrienne Rich

• may
• love
• manly

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham. Anna Sewell

• may
• living
• others

Live simply so that others may simply live. Mahatma Gandhi

• respect
• eyes
• good

KNOW YOUR DOPE FIEND. YOUR LIFE MAY DEPEND ON IT! You will not be able to see his eyes because of the Tea-Shades, but his knuckles will be white from inner tension and his pants will be crusted with semen from constantly jacking off when he can't find a rape victim. He will stagger and babble when questioned. He will not respect your badge. The Dope Fiend fears nothing. He will attack, for no reason, with every weapon at his command-including yours. BEWARE. Any officer apprehending a... Hunter S. Thompson

• him
• little
• bear

When speaking to a Bear of Very Little Brain, remember that long words may bother him. A. A. Milne