May Quotes

I may not have been the best Yankee to put on the pinstripes, but I am the proudest.

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.

The first duty to children is to make them happy. If you have not made them so, you have wronged them. No other good they may get can make up for that.

Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

A minority may be right, and a majority is always wrong.

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something.

If you tailor your news viewing so that you only get one point of view, well of course you're going to think somebody else has got a different point of view, and it may be wrong.

Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong.

I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.

The time horizon may be too long for sole reliance on market solutions - but perhaps the inventiveness of the financial services industry will prove me wrong that point!

You know, there's a big lie in this business. The lie is that it's okay to go out in flames. But that doesn't do anybody much good. I may be wrong, but I think Hendrix was trying to come around.

I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but a general support for war before it orders our forces to fight.

I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

When a business group tells us there is nothing wrong with the environment, naturally they may have good arguments, but we are also sceptical, because we know that they have an interest in these things.

I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written.

Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written.

Let no man write my epitaph... When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then shall my character be vindicated, then may my epitaph be written.

Unavoidable circumstances prevent me from giving you ample written instructions. Such however as may be deemed necessary will be prepared and sent to you at the City of Washington in a very few days.