Mays Quotes (page 168)

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• may
• single
• boys

The boys were amazed that I could make such a poem as that out of my own head, and so was I, of course, it being as much a surprise to me as it could be to anybody, for I did not know that it was in me. If any had asked me a single day before if it was in me, I should have told them frankly no, it was not.That is the way with us; we may go on half of our life not knowing such a thing is in us, when in reality it was there all the time, and all we needed was something to turn up that would... Mark Twain

• wishes
• country
• may

This country has done much, I wish it may do more, and annul every narrow idea in religion, government, and commerce. John Adams

• him
• words
• may

But Jesus makes his appearance here only as a corpse; the living man, the wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist, is never once mentioned, nor anything he ever had to say. Christ crucified rules, and it may be that the true business of modern Christianity is to crucify him again and again so that he can never get a word out of his mouth. Barbara Ehrenreich

• trust
• death
• may

DO NOT PUT ALL YOUR TRUST IN ROOT VEGETABLES. WHAT THINGS SEEM TO BE MAY NOT BE WHAT THEY ARE.-Death Terry Prachett

• life
• giving
• may

Only fools insist upon life at any cost.... Others would say that life may be laid down when it becomes too heavy. Where does it go, after all, but into the keeping of the Powers who gave it and will give it once again? Sheri S. Tepper

• love
• my love
• dead

Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and pray by it. William Makepeace Thackeray

• may
• inspiration
• inspirational

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist. Neil Gaiman

• may
• calling
• lateness

Afore me! It is so very late, That we may call it early by and by. William Shakespeare

• universe
• humorous
• play

The universe may not always play fair, but at least it's got a hell of a sense of humor. Candace Bushnell

• dream
• to live
• may

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live. Henry David Thoreau

• giving
• simple
• april

Since then your sere Majesty and your Lordships seek a simple answer, I will give it in this manner, neither horned nor toothed. Unless I am convinced by the testimony of the Scriptures or by clear reason (for I do not trust either in the pope or in councils alone, since it is well known that they have often erred and contradicted themselves), I am bound by the Scriptures I have quoted and my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything, since it is... Martin Luther

• thinking
• may
• preparation

Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. Douglas Adams

• empty
• tree
• writing

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness. Khalil Gibran

• may
• bonding
• chance

Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ their faculties, and such favourable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them most desirable. John Stuart Mill

• time
• perfect
• may

Be open to suggestion, no one is so perfect that they may not need advice from time to time. Baltasar Gracian