"Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death."
Read quote
11 likes
May quotes
May
9.1K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to May
Browse quotes that often appear alongside may — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
May quotes (page 36 of 454)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget."
Read quote
11 likes
"Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well."
Read quote
11 likes
"All great undertakings are achieved through mighty obstacles. Keep up the deepest mental poise. Take not even the slightest notice of what puerile creatures may be saying against you."
Read quote
11 likes
"YOU know, I may have to be born again, you see, I have fallen in love with mankind."
Read quote
11 likes
"Beyond what we wish and what we fear may happen we have another life, as clear and free as a mountain stream."
Read quote
11 likes
"You may be wondering why there are words on my hands. That's because I'm a dork. And I'm gonna choose not to explain myself."
Read quote
11 likes
"If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else."
Read quote
11 likes
"Nature has given to each conscious being every power she possesses, and one of these abilities is this: just as Nature converts and alters every obstacle and opposition, and fits them into their predestined place, making them a part of herself, so too the rational person is able to finesse every obstacle into an opportunity, and to use it for whatever purpose it may suit."
Read quote
11 likes
"How deceitful hope may be, yet she carries us on pleasantly to the end of life."
Read quote
11 likes
"It is monstrous that custom should force us to display our faces ostentatiously, however worn and wrinkled and mean they may be, whilst carefully concealing all our other parts, however shapely and well preserved."
Read quote
11 likes
"My Lord, what love is this that pays so dearly. That I, the guilty one, may go free!"
Read quote
11 likes
"Man cannot live without a permanent trust in something indestructible in himself, though both the indestructible element and the trust may remain permanently hidden from him. One of the ways in which this hiddenness can express itself is through faith in a personal god."
Read quote
11 likes
"Though I may not be a king in my future life, so much the better: I shall nevertheless live an active life and, on top of it, earn less ingratitude."
Read quote
11 likes
"I hope all of us may eventually be together in everlasting peace and bliss -- except the inventor of the # telephone ."
Read quote
11 likes
"It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened."
Read quote
11 likes
"You cannot ask which system is the better because you cannot standardize one system for the whole of the world. You cannot have one stereotyped code of morality for every country. One system may work very well in one country and very badly in another. You cannot grow a tropical flower in a cold climate."
Read quote
11 likes
"I let everyone follow his own bent, that I may be free to follow mine."
Read quote
11 likes
"All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which must be fruitful in other consequences besides those particular acts."
Read quote
11 likes
"Pie throwing is kind of a lost art, and although it may be a rather rudimentary, burlesque humor, there's something inherently funny about taking a pie in the face, under the right conditions."
Read quote
11 likes