Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
As an overruling providence may succeed our wishes, let us rear an offspring in every respect worthy to fill the most illustrious stations of their predecessors.
~ Deborah Sampson
We know what we are, but know not what we may be.
~ William Shakespeare
No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
~ Elie Wiesel
We make war that we may live in peace.
~ Aristotle
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
~ Neville Chamberlain
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
~ Winston Churchill
So to recap: we may or may not be going to war with Iraq because Saddam may or may not have weapons of mass destruction, which he may or may not use, or pass to other terrorists groups with whom he may or may not have links.
~ Rory Bremner
The wisest of the wise may err.
~ Aeschylus
We may be personally defeated, but our principles never!
~ William Lloyd Garrison
The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.
~ Andrew Ross Sorkin
We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.
~ Bernard Meltzer
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
~ Hans Hofmann
A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
~ Robert Anton Wilson
Anonymous blog comments, vapid video pranks and lightweight mash-ups may seem trivial and harmless, but as a whole, this widespread practice of fragmentary, impersonal communication has demeaned personal interaction.
~ Jaron Lanier
There may not be much future for the kind of sports column I did.
~ George Vecsey
Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.
~ Alexei Sayle
The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic for environmentalists: these may indeed be the Apollo programme's most enduring legacy.
~ Martin Rees
Computers may save time but they sure waste a lot of paper. About 98 percent of everything printed out by a computer is garbage that no one ever reads.
~ Andy Rooney
Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.
~ Thomas Browne
Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
~ Abraham Lincoln
Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.
~ Julie Burchill
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
~ Anne Frank
Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.
~ Walter Cronkite
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
~ Theodore Roethke
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
~ Isaac Asimov
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
~ Karl Popper
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.
~ Stephen Hawking
To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.
~ Vannevar Bush
I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.
~ Jane D. Hull
His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall.
~ James M. Barrie
Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.
~ Hector Berlioz
The British may not know much about music, but they certainly loves the noise it makes.
~ Richard Baker
Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
~ Sinclair Lewis
There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part.
~ Bram Stoker
Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.
~ Muriel Spark
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
~ Immanuel Kant
Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!
~ Freddie Mercury
Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
~ William James
