May Quotes

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.

The American people may not be the best-educated, but they're very wise at heart.

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not.

Extreme nationalism and Bolshevism have broken up the old world, a new world is in the making. It is literally true that old things are passing away; all things may become new, granted we have wise, unselfish, and determined guides.

The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.

I'm often very relaxed when I'm on the wire. There may be some tears because this is a dream of mine.

Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

You may depend on it that the bunting, emberiza miliaria, does not leave this country in the winter.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Bill Condon, I must say, may have been one of the best professional experiences of my life, collaborating with him. He, himself, is an Academy Award winning screenwriter. He is a storyteller first and foremost, so we speak the same language. We approach things always from the story.

Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it.

In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.

I hope the two wings of the Democratic Party may flap together.

Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.

Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact that right now it tastes like crude oil. You know this is how it is supposed to taste at this stage of development.

Let there be many windows to your soul, that all the glory of the world may beautify it.

The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.

May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.