May Quotes - Page 3

• May is a pious fraud of the almanac.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, Fraud, Pious

  'Under the Willows' (1869) l. 21

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• The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May.

  Thomas Malory

  Spring, Heart, Tree

  'Le Morte D'Arthur' (1485) bk. 18, ch. 25

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• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

  Confucius

  Wise, Wisdom, Attitude

  "Words of Wisdom to Live By". Book by Alfred Armand Montapert, 1986.

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• Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.

  Jane Austen

  Pride, Thinking, Vanity

  Jane Austen (2008). “Pride and Prejudice”, p.26, Waking Lion Press

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  Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4990, Delphi Classics

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• It may sound surprising when I say, on the basis of my own clinical practice as well as that of my psychological and psychiatric colleagues, that the chief problem of people in the middle decade of the twentieth century is emptiness.

  Rollo May

  Practice, People, Sound

  Rollo May Ph.D. (1953). “Man's Search for Himself”

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• However it may be confounded or covered up or counterfeited, this elemental capacity to fight against injustice remains the distinguishing characteristic of human beings.

  Rollo May

  Fighting, Covered Up, Injustice

  "Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence". Book by Rollo May, Ch. 11 : The Humanity of the Rebel, 1972.

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• May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.

  P.B. Kerr

  Blessing, Past, Irish Drinking

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• A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

  John F. Kennedy

  Life, Fall, Creativity

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.156, Best Books on

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• O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Sweet, Passion, Wine

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• Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

  John F. Kennedy

  Destiny, Men, Innovation

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• Here's to our wives and girlfriends...may they never meet!

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Girlfriend

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• If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Food, Unrequited Love

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

  Thomas Paine

  Veterans Day, Time, Peace

  Thomas Paine (2003). “Common Sense, The Rights of Man and Other Essential Writings of ThomasPaine”, p.96, Penguin

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• You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

  Mary Pickford

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Why Not Try God?", Chapter 6 (newspaper serial) in St. Petersburg Times, sect. 2, p. 3, news.google.com. January 25, 1936.

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• I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring. Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature's rebirth?

  Edward Giobbi

  Art, Spring, Garden

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• The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.

  Rollo May

  Relationship, Peace, Mean

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Creative people... are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of 'divine madness,' to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks.

  Rollo May

  People, Creative, Anxiety

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• O month when they who love must love and wed.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Wedding, Months

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1891). “A Calendar of Sonnets”, p.7, Library of Alexandria

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• There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Cousin, Lasts

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Much Ado About Nothing Simplified!: Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling”, p.83, BookCaps Study Guides

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• All furnished, all in arms;
  All plum'd like estridges that with the wind
  Bated like eagles having lately bathed;
  Glittering in golden coats like images;
  As full of spirit as the month of May
  And gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;
  Wanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls.

  William Shakespeare

  Eagles, Wind, Plums

  William Shakespeare (1806). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.298

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• No doubt they rose up early to observe the rite of May; and, hearing our intent, Came here in grace of our solemnity.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Up Early, Rose

  William Shakespeare (2012). “3 by Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet and Richard III”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Spring, Wind

  Sonnet 18

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• As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.

  William Shakespeare

  Horse, Months, Sun

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1806). “The plays of William Shakespeare: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.298

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• Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

  Samuel Ullman

  Life, Birthday, Leadership

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