May quotes

Discover inspiring and thought-provoking quotes about May, the vibrant and transformative month of new beginnings, blooming flowers, and the gentle whispers of spring.

The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.

- Niels Bohr

And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!

- Barbara Bush

May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.

- Jonathan Carroll

You may succeed in your policy and ensure your own damnation, by your victory.

- James Larkin

Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion.

- William Lloyd Garrison

People may say that what I do is very clever, but it's not really at all. It's not Swift.

- Rory Bremner

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

- Mark Twain

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

- Plato

Every rustic who delivers in the village alehouse his slow, infrequent sentences, may help to kill or keep alive the fatal superstitions which clog his race.

- William Kingdon Clifford

Even though some in our government may claim that civil liberties must be compromised in order to protect the public, we must be wary of what we are giving up in the name of fighting terrorism.

- Lucille Roybal Allard

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

- Arnold Bennett

For example, lead paint in old houses can be a greater threat to children's health than lead that may be under some industrial site where there are no children.

- Fred Thompson

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

- Will Rogers

It may be, it just may be, that life as we know it with its humanity is more unique than many have thought.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

Until we meet again, may God bless you as he has blessed me.

- Elvis Presley

In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that satisfy human wants, we may use the term Goods for that purpose.

- Alfred Marshall

When looking at the evidence of feeding on large prey, you can see every size tooth from hatchling to adult in one spot. The babies may have been fed in the nest until they were full grown, like in eagles and hawks.

- Robert T. Bakker

If you wish to make a man look noble, your best course is to kill him. What superiority he may have inherited from his race, what superiority nature may have personally gifted him with, comes out in death.

- Alexander Smith

The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

- Ovid

I like to write songs about what's happening, what I see around me and what I hear. Everyday life. Someone may be talking to me and I may take it from that.

- Desmond Dekker

You may be pulling from different influences because of different things that are going on in your life, different people that are around you and more experiences to pull from.

- Zac Hanson

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.

- Andrew Denton

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

- Mark Twain

Suicidal terrorists may have short shelf lives.

- John McCarthy

Display advertising and the movies, though they may dull the wits, certainly stimulate the eyes.

- John Dos Passos

France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are "made in America."

- Helen Rowland

Christ bears with the saints' imperfections; well may the saints one with another.

- William Gurnall

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

- Og Mandino

In justice to human society it may perhaps be said of almost all the polities and civil institutions in the world, however imperfect, that they have been founded in and carried on with very considerable wisdom.

- Ezra Stiles

We always may be what we might have been.

- Adelaide Anne Procter