Top 100 May As Well Quotes
#2. If you live feeling like
Your glass is half empty, well,
It may as well be empty all the way.
Mattie J.T. Stepanek
#3. It's crazy to me how concerned people get with what it looks like and what you can do there. People may as well be talking about JRR Tolkien or Star Trek or something.
Brad Warner
#4. Greasy food might not be good for your body, but it does wonders for the soul. A healthy diet may prolong your life, but what would you have to live for? What is the point of living to a hundred if you have to subsist on bland food? One may as well die of boredom.
Jessica Zafra
#5. When you say a 'former child star,' you may as well say 'failed child star.'
Wil Wheaton
#6. You may as well know, right here, that you can never have riches in great quantities, unless you can work yourself into a white heat of desire for money, and actually believe you will possess it.
Napoleon Hill
#7. I may as well have told him I'd carried a watermelon
Lindsey Kelk
#8. Existence is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it
Francis Bacon
#9. If you're falling off a cliff, you may as well try to fly. You have nothing to lose.
Captain John Sheridan
#10. I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market ticker-tape machine, except that you can't unplug me.
Joseph Epstein
#11. England may as well dam up the waters of the Nile with bulrushes as to fetter the step of Freedom, more proud and firm in this youthful land than where she treads the sequestered glens of Scotland, or couches herself among the magnificent mountains of Switzerland.
Lydia M. Child
#12. Even if things are as bad as they could possible be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent; we may as well please our sensibilities and, with as much spirit as we can muster, go out with a buck and a wing.
Annie Dillard
#13. If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.
George Bernard Shaw
#14. One may as well begin with Helen's letters to her sister.
E. M. Forster
#15. I think that's the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you're never going to grow up and you're never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don't wait
Hugh Laurie
#16. You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
William Tecumseh Sherman
#17. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#18. I'm a working class lad. So at 25, and with no-one in our family having any theatrical inclination, when I said, 'I'm going to scratch all that and become an actor,' I may as well have said I was going to be a Premiership footballer for the chance I'd have.
Rob James-Collier
#19. Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.
Rachael Taylor
#20. To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.
Henry David Thoreau
#21. Take it from me, if you are in an open space with no weapons and a grizzly comes for you, run. You may as well. If nothing else, it will give you something to do with the last seven seconds of your life.
Bill Bryson
#22. Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.
Lady Gaga
#23. A man may as well open an oyster without a knife, as a lawyer's mouth without a fee.
Barten Holyday
#24. Dine we must and we may as well dine elegantly as well as wholesomely.
Isabella Beeton
#25. If there was not one man Adam and one woman Eve, and a literal event of the one man Adam taking the fruit in rebellion and thus bringing sin and death into world, then one may as well throw the rest of the Bible away.
Ken Ham
#27. I'm sure I look a wreck. But he's the one who wrecked me so he may as well take a good long look at what he's done.
Monica Murphy
#28. This is less teaching than damage control. You may as well paint a house that's on fire.
Chuck Palahniuk
#29. You're saying something with your appearance whether you mean to or not, so you may as well mean to.
Lyle Lovett
#30. It's unnecessarily grandiose to use an Open Sesame on the doors, but I do it anyway because I know everyone will be in the dining hall, and I may as well make an entrance.
Rainbow Rowell
#31. Can't you just like a girl who likes you back?'
'None of them likes me back. I may as well like the one I really want.
Rainbow Rowell
#32. We are tethered to our kind, and may as well join hands in the struggle.
Agnes Repplier
#33. I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.
Serena Williams
#34. There are no telepaths in this universe, I think, but there are empathics, with languages so silent that they may as well be sharing thoughts.
China Mieville
#35. A politician who enters public life may as well face the fact that the best way of not being found out is not to do anything which, if found out, will cause his ruin.
Lord Hailsham
#36. Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we're here we may as well dance.
Jeanne C. Stein
#37. Since you can't change the past, you may as well make the best of the present.
Wanda E. Brunstetter
#38. If it's not impossible, you may as well try. If it is impossible, at least you'll find out why.
Ron Kaufman
#39. We may as well cut out group theory. That is a subject that will never be of any use in physics.
James Jeans
#40. I don't wanna have any other kind of job. I can't work among people. I may as well try & make a career out of this. All my life my dream has been to be a big rock star - just may as well abuse it while you can.
Kurt Cobain
#41. I didn't want to go down the route of spending a year of my life making a movie that would never be seen. I may as well go down a route making a film that a lot of people will see, which is the whole idea behind cinema.
Ridley Scott
#42. My mom didn't want me to go to college. She didn't want me to read - when I read, I may as well have been holding a pineapple.
Lynda Barry
#43. If its about the existence of god, you may as well ask me, what the square root of an elephant is?
Steve Merrick
#44. I wear the midi because I feel if you're going to look ugly, you may as well look this year's ugly.
Joan Rivers
#45. The ability to talk to kids and reach kids is a gift I've been given, and I may as well use it.
Montel Williams
#46. Tell Youth to play with Wine and Love and never bear away the scars! I may as well tilt up the sky and yet try not to spill the stars.
Ridgely Torrence
#47. You may as well know, also, that every great leader, from the dawn of civilization down to the present, was a dreamer.
Napoleon Hill
#48. If you're going to be thinking, you may as well think big.
Donald Trump
#49. To be honest, today's runners may as well go back to being nude as them Lycra pants they wear don't really hide much, do they? It's plain to see that if Usain Bolt went back to the old ways of running in the nude he would have an advantage getting over the finish line before anyone else. It
Karl Pilkington
#50. I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.
Nigella Lawson
#51. The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#53. Jake West had ruined the entire male penis experience for me for eternity. Any dick that wasn't his may as well be flaccid and the size of a pin.
Amity Cross
#54. May as well have painted the walls black, she thought with some amusement.
Evan Currie
#55. Well, then, we may as well find somewhere to have tea. After spiritual comes bodily refreshment.
Barbara Pym
#56. I'm an optimist - that's why I try to invent different systems; otherwise, I may as well stop right now. Sometimes I get the feeling the French cinema holds on tightly to what exists already.
Julie Gayet
#57. Startups are very hard no matter what you do; you may as well go after a big opportunity.
Sam Altman
#58. In what may as well be starkly labelled smug satisfaction, an amazing 94% [of college instructors] rate themselves as above average teachers, and 68% rank themselves in the top quarter of teaching performances.
K. Patricia Cross
#59. I've stolen a shirt to wear since my clothing has gone missing. You may as well get used to living without it because there is no way I'm giving up a tee that says 'To unleash the Kraken is to unzip my pants.
Nikki Winter
#60. What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty! I have a key in my bosom, called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any lock in Doubting Castle.
John Bunyan
#61. When a decision is inevitable you may as well take it as quick as possible so that you still have something left to deal with whatever consequences may arise.
Mark Lawrence
#62. If liberals think they are losing elections because of the conservative bias in the media, they may as well give up right now.
Ann Coulter
#63. A man may as well hew marble without tools, or paint without colors or instruments, or build without materials, as perform any acceptable service without the graces of the Spirit, which are both the materials and instruments in the work.
Joseph Alleine
#64. Well! I'm glad you didn't call him a buffoon." "Or pompous," Pauline added. "Or ignorant," Jeb chimed in. "Or an ass," Kaden said. "I didn't call him an ass." Rafe grunted. "You may as well have." Now
Mary E. Pearson
#65. If I'm spending time on something, I may as well do good as opposed to average.
Fred DeLuca
#66. It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.
Hugh Laurie
#67. [Amy] pulled a face. 'Honestly, when you grow up you'll learn you may as well try herding cats as keeping men in one place,' she told me solemnly, which I vowed to remember.
James Goss
#68. If you strike me, Hareton will strike you! So you may as well sit down.
Emily Bronte
#69. If you can have Ed Sheeran on your record, you may as well.
Jamie Lawson
#70. The place was built on the premise that people want to gamble, and they may as well do it here. They look after their clientele, and, hell, they treat me like I'm one of their family.
Wilford Brimley
#71. I don't do social media of any kind. If I did, I may as well join Scientology.
Edward Ruscha
#72. You're the most beautiful thing I've ever seen," she admitted to him softly. "I may as well do what I want to most right now since I'm going to hell anyway, right?" His
Laurann Dohner
#73. Marriage is the flimsiest weapon against desire. You may as well take a pop-gun to a python.
Jeanette Winterson
#74. I can understand the poor and stupid voting for Marxism or one of its fashionable variants. If you've no hope of being other than a slave, you may as well opt for the most efficient form of slavery.
P.D. James
#75. Language skill requires a bit of knowledge about how we answer the question: How do you know that Blumph is true? Plus a smidgen of Logic. B.S. Detecting gives you this because without it, Pogo's Owl may be talking about you: "You may as well quit your thinkin'. It ain't improvin' your talkin' none.
Mary Thompson
#76. If one is to drown, one may as well do it in the largest possible pond.
Cathryn Louis
#77. Show me your eyes and you may as well show me your cards.
Doyle Brunson
#78. Tears were going to fall at any moment, and if the two of them were going to break they may as well shatter.
Elise Kova
#79. If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig
#80. Nothing about this scene is right, but at this point, I'm so full of wrong, I'll do whatever they want and ask myself for forgiveness later. I'm driving the bus to hell anyway. May as well take a little vacation while I'm in town.
Kendall Grey
#81. Struggling is hard, so is achieving success; so you may as well choose success, over time it'll seem easier.
Rob Liano
#82. If you got to have a dream, you may as well dream big.
Rachel Bilson
#83. If we give the bureaucrats our children, we may as well give them everything else.
John Gresham Machen
#84. One may as well go, as look into another man's house; because the eye may reach what the hand cannot.
Xenocrates
#85. Prodigious actions may as well be done, by weaver's issue, as the prince's son.
John Dryden
#86. For the majority of the time, I may as well have been just a really tan white kid. You know, I may as well have just been, like, a fat kid.
Aziz Ansari
#87. I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work, so you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool.
Neil Gaiman
#88. A man's principles are his own. Man starts flip-flopping on what he believes based on outside influences and he may as well run for congress.
J.J. Zep
#89. If you merely focus on what we already know, then it's not revelatory. You may as well just go and watch a documentary or a few videos on Youtube, and you're good.
David Oyelowo
#90. If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
#91. Fire and water may as well agree in the same vessel, as grace and sin in the same heart.
Thomas Brooks
#92. A person without curiosity may as well be dead.
Judy Blume
#93. It's being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it's like you may as well have thrown it down a well. It's not all champagne and doing interviews with The New York Times.
George R R Martin
#94. As long as I'm enjoying what I'm doing, then that's fine. That's what I want. I want to enjoy life. We're only here for a small ride, so it may as well be a good one. If I can go to work enjoying what I do, then my life becomes a very nice one.
Aneurin Barnard
#95. I always felt, you don't have a good time doin crime, you may as well find a job.
Elmore Leonard
#96. If you're going to be an R already, you may as well be 'The Hangover,' and you may as well be as shocking as possible, because that's what delivers the most return.
Jon Favreau
#97. I'm already harboring fugitives. If I'm going to aid,I may as well abet.
Leigh Bardugo
#98. If you don't want to be the biggest band in the world, you may as well pack it in.
Noel Gallagher
#99. Isobel looked down at her lap, at her hands. She turned her left one over, remembering where Varen had written his number on her that first time. Those numbers were gone now, but in hindsight, he may as well have tattooed the moment onto her soul.
Kelly Creagh
#100. You may as well tell our readers that death and taxes are coming back.
Dani Kollin
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