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Exlpore more May quotes
"I may have aimed too high sometimes, asked too much of myself and demanded too little from those around me."
May,
"Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree."
"No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things."
"It is up to us to give ourselves recognition. If we wait for it to come from others, we feel resentful when it doesn't, and when it does, we may well reject it."
May,
"A playwright must be his own audience. A novelist may lose his readers for a few pages; a playwright never dares lose his audience for a minute."
May,
"New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen."
May,
"If Senator Kerry decides to join us for an hour, then we may only use one or two brief clips. And use the bulk of what he has to tell us as part of that program."
May,
"Franz Kline, who became known for his black and white paintings, did a whole series of gorgeous landscapes and wonderful portraits that may still hang in Greenwich Village."
Explore more quotes by Felix Frankfurter
"The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes."
"Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late."
"All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them."
"It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals."
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