May Quotes - Page 209

No matter what an architect may be at home, he becomes a monumentalist when he comes to Washington.

No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions.

That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.

The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.

Those of faith who plant sacred thoughts in the uplands of time, the secret gardeners of the Lord in mankind's desolate hopes, may slacken and tarry but rarely betray their vocation.

It may not seem that way, but I am an absolute optimist, an unrepentant optimist.

People still have existential anxiety. It just may not be expressed in Hebraic idiom.

With this magazine, you could change the 'H' to 'G', it may be funnier and better for sales.

Existence is beyond the power of words to define: Terms may be used But are none of them absolute.

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

Shalt show us how divine a thing A woman may be made.

My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.

I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist.

A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!

And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see', Quoth he, 'how the world wags: 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot.

There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.

I am your wife if you will marry me. If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no.

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.

The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.

When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.

And in those varieties of pain of which we spoke anon, what a part of confidante has that poor teapot played ever since the kindly plant was introduced among us! What myriads of women have cried over it, to be sure! What sickbeds it has smoked by! What fevered lips have received refreshment from out of it! Nature meant very gently by women when she made that teaplant; and with a little thought what a series of pictures and groups the fancy may conjure up and assemble round the teapot and cup!

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.

The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.

We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.