May Quotes - Page 18

• Every physical fact, every expression of nature, every feature of the earth, the work of any and all of those agents which make the face of the world what it is, and as we see it, is interesting and instructive. Until we get hold of a group of physical facts, we do not know what practical bearings they may have, though right-minded men know that they contain many precious jewels, which science, or the expert hand of philosophy will not fail top bring out, polished, and bright, and beautifully adapted to man's purposes.

  Matthew Fontaine Maury

  Nature, Philosophy, Hard Work

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• Symmetry, as wide or as narrow as you may define its meaning, is one idea by which man through the ages has tried to comprehend and create order, beauty and perfection.

  Hermann Weyl

  Math, Science, Men

  Hermann Weyl (2015). “Symmetry”, p.5, Princeton University Press

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• You may translate books of science exactly. ... The beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written.

  Samuel Johnson

  Book, Writing, Science

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.264

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• My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms,
  the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely
  and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them
  because I know that I am bored.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Lonely, Being Alone, Two

  In Observer 12 Dec. 1948, p. 2

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• Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.

  James de la Vega

  Business, Thinking, Eels

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• Profits on the exchange are the treasures of goblins. At one time they may be carbuncle stones, then coals, then diamonds, then flint stones, then morning dew, then tears.

  James de la Vega

  Morning, Business, Tears

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• This may seem simple, but you need to give customers what they want, not what you think they want. And, if you do this, people will keep coming back.

  John Ilhan

  Business, Educational, Simple

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• Advertising is our printed salesman. It may not be pretty, but it has to be true.

  William Wrigley, Jr.

  Business, Media, Advertising

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• Smart recessionary marketing means not waiting for business to return to normal. Instead, you should cash in on this invaluable opportunity your more cautious competitors may be creating for you. If they pull back, your media investment works much harder.

  Sarah Carter

  Business, Smart, Mean

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• It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable-he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Change, Men, Usual

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• If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Change, Success

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• What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

  Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

  Change

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• Christmas day is a day of joy and charity. May God make you very rich in both.

  Phillips Brooks

  Christmas, Xmas, Joy

  Phillips Brooks, John Cotton Brooks (1910). “Sermons: Sermons for the principal festivals and fasts of the church year, ed. by Rev John Cotton Brooks”

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• The best Christmas gift of all is the presence of a happy family all wrapped up with one another.
  Jesus is the reason for the season!
  From a little spark may burst a mighty flame.
  The only blind person at Christmastime is he who has not Christmas in his heart.

  Helen Keller

  Christmas, Jesus, Heart

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• At Christmas I no more desire a rose
  Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;
  But like of each thing that in season grows.

  William Shakespeare

  Christmas, Time, Xmas

  'Love's Labour's Lost' (1595) act 1, sc. 1, l. 105

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• It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Courage, Often Is, People

  "A Woman's Thoughts About Women" by Dinah Maria Murlock Craik, (Ch. 11), 1858.

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• People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Courage, Selfish, Men

  F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dover Thrift Editions (2015). “The Early Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald”, p.129, Courier Dover Publications

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• Courage, of all national qualities, is the most precarious; because it is exerted only at intervals, and by a few in every nation; whereas industry, knowledge, civility, may be of constant and universal use, and for several ages, may become habitual to the whole people.

  David Hume

  Courage, People, Quality

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.706, Delphi Classics

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• In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience - the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men - each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage can define that ingredient - they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul.

  John F. Kennedy

  Courage, Inspiration, Loss

  Selected Quotations from John F. Kennedy's Book "Profiles in Courage", www.jfklibrary.org. 1957.

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• Death is the dropping of the flower, that the fruit may swell.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Death, Flower, Dying

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.92

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• It may be that some little root of the sacred tree still lives. Nourish it then, that it may leaf and bloom and fill with singing birds.

  Black Elk

  Depression, Roots, Bird

  Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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• Perhaps, the answer is that my ravaged mind rails against the idea of God, but something deeper in me calls out as if God might answer. 'There are not foxholes,' I guess, and depression is the deepest and deadliest foxhole I've been in. It may be the 'dark night of the soul' that the mystics talk about but in depression it is not so much that one becomes lost in the dark as one becomes the dark.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Depression, Dark, Night

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• May I not forget that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Though the world knows me not, may my thoughts and actions be such as will keep me friendly with myself.

  Max Ehrmann

  Depression, Friendly, World

  Max Ehrmann (2017). “The Desiderata of Happiness”, p.11, Souvenir Press Ltd

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• Sometimes one has simply to endure a period of depression for what it may hold of illumination if one can live through it, attentive to what it exposes or demands.

  May Sarton

  Sad, Depression, Illumination

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.

  Elie Wiesel

  Education, Use, Reason

  Elie Wiesel (2013). “Souls on Fire”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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