Quotes on May

Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all.

Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home. There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played.

No accidents are so unlucky [bad] but that the wise may draw some advantage [good] from them.

Now it may seem so far from where we all are It's something we can't neglect It's something I can't neglect Now won't you give some bread to get the starving fed

He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.

Old April wanes, and her last dewy morn Her death-bed steeps in tears; to hail the May New blooming blossoms neath the sun are born, And all poor April's charms are swept away.

[Failure is hard initially because] One knows what one has lost, but not what one may find [and learn from that failure]!

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

...nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.

What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.

By playing at Chess then, we may learn... First: Foresight. Second: Circumspection. Third: Caution.

Man cannot live upon words, however he may try.

Non-injuring has to be attained by him who would be free. No one is more powerful than he who has attained perfect non-injuring. No one could fight, no one could quarrel, in his presence. Yes, his very presence, and nothing else, means peace, means love wherever he may be. Nobody could be angry or fight in his presence. Even the animals, ferocious animals, would be peaceful before him.

Much of the character of everyman may be read in his house.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.

The rate at which organizations learn may soon become the only sustainable source of competitive advantage.

A type of revolutionary novelty may be extremely beautiful in itself; but, for the creatures of habit that we are, its very novelty tends to make it illegible, at any rate to begin with.

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.