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May Quotes
"Someday I suspect, when Jesus has definitely got me for a sunbeam, my works may be adequately assessed."
May,
36
"Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be."
35
"When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing."
33
"My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write."
33
"May was young and beautiful, we were legally married, but she was caught in the prison of my skin."
33
"We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that is, for every one of us to be still, that if any thing should he said, every one may the better hear."
May,
33
"May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine."
33
"The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you."
May,
33
"The movement of the emitters of the spectral lines may be deduced on the basis of the Doppler principle."
May,
32
"We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves."
May,
32
"Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do."
31
"Flames from the lips may be produced by holding in the mouth a sponge saturated with the purest gasoline."
May,
31
"I may be the girl next door, but you wouldn't want to live next to me."
31
"By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox."
30
"I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks."
30
"You create a pile of dirt and then drive over it. We may have to learn to drive all over again."
May,
29
"Let it them be put into any clean oven vessel of china or stoneware which should be wider at the top than at the bottom. so that there may be the largest surface above to favor the evaporation."
May,
29
"It may not be possible to get rare roast beef but if you're willing to settle for well done, ask them to hold the sweetened library paste that passes for gravy."
May,
29
"We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet."
May,
29
"I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old."
29
"It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border."
29
"The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it."
28
"Such Roots as are soft, your best way is to dry in the Sun, or else hang them up in the Chimney corner upon a string; as for such as are hard you may dry them any where."
27
"You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut."
27
"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."
27
"I've always been drawn to Marilyn Monroe, but certain aspects of her story may be too sad to tell."
May,
26
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