Top 49 Quotes About May 1st

#1. They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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#2. That part of a work of one author found in another is not of itself piracy, or sufficient to support an action; a man may adopt part of the work of another; he may so make use of another's labors for the promotion of science and the benefit of the public.

Edward Law, 1st Earl Of Ellenborough

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#3. Say what we will, we may be sure that ambition is an error. Its wear and tear on the heart are never recompensed.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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#4. A woman may live without a lover, but a lover once admitted, she never goes through life with only one. She is deserted, and cannot bear her anguish and solitude, and hence fills up the void with a second idol.

Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling And Bulwer

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#5. Every man must be taken to be cognizant of the law, otherwise there is no saying to what extent the excuse of ignorance may not be Law carried. It would be urged in almost every case.

Edward Law, 1st Earl Of Ellenborough

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#6. To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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#7. Insults may hurt at 1st, but a callus will form to protect you in the future. Life is gonna be all right.

Michael Dean Russell Jr.

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#8. It may, indeed, be said that sympathy exists in all minds, as Faraday has discovered that magnetism exists in all metals; but a certain temperature is required to develop the hidden property, whether in the metal or the mind.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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#9. To argue against any breach of liberty from the ill use that may be made of it, is to argue against liberty itself, since all is capable of being abused.

George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton

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#10. Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other below it.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

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#11. The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail, its roof may shake, the winds may blow through it, the storm may enter, the rain may enter; but the king of England cannot enter.

William Pitt, 1st Earl Of Chatham

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#12. Fiction may be said to be the caricature of history.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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#13. The answer to our prayer may be the echo of our resolve.

Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

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#14. In oratory affectation must be avoided; it being better for a man by a native and clear eloquence to express himself than by those words which may smell either of the lamp or inkhorn.

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert Of Cherbury

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#15. Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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#16. The past is the best way to suppose what may come.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

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#17. Let us fill urns with rose-leaves in May
And hive the the trifty sweetness for December!

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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#18. A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

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#19. What Anacharsis said of the vine may aptly enough be said of prosperity. She bears the three grapes of drunkenness, pleasure, and sorrow; and happy is it if the last can cure the mischief which the former work. When afflictions fail to have their due effect, the case is desperate.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

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#20. We may live without friends; we may live without books
But civilized men cannot live without cooks.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

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#21. By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.

John Reith, 1st Baron Reith

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#22. The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one May hope to achieve it before life be done. But he who seeks all things wherever he goes Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

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#23. In life, as in whist, hope nothing from the way cards may be dealt to you. Play the cards, whatever they be, to the best of your skill.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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#24. What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.

Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

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#25. Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl Of Halifax

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#26. Earnest men never think in vain, though their thoughts may be errors.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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#27. The air of England is too pure for a slave to breathe, and so everyone who breathes it becomes free. Everyone who comes to this island is entitled to the protection of English law, whatever oppression he may have suffered and whatever may be the colour of his skin.

William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

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#28. Whatever you lend let it be your money, and not your name. Money you may get again, and, if not, you may contrive to do without it; name once lost you cannot get again, and, if you cannot contrive to do without it, you had better never have been born.

Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling And Bulwer

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#29. Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely may be pursued too keenly may cost too much.

Nathan Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild

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#30. When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me.

Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

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#31. Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please
the one yields glory, and the other ease.

William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling

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#32. The first attempt may fail, but it does not create room for excuses.

Israelmore Ayivor

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#33. Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.

Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood

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#34. They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.

Thomas Paine

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#35. The ideal Government minister may well be someone who has no itch to run other people's lives.

Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey Of Fallodon

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#36. Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

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#37. The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry.

Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet

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#38. By May, 1st, 1937, there should not be one single church left within the borders of Soviet Russia, and the idea of God will have been banished from the Soviet Union as a remnant of the Middle Ages, which has been used for the purpose of oppressing the working classes.

Joseph Stalin

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#39. I hesitate to say what the functions of the modern journalist may be, but I imagine that they do not exclude the intelligent anticipation of the facts even before they occur.

George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon Of Kedleston

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#40. May, queen of blossoms,
And fulfilling flowers,
With what pretty music
Shall we charm the hours?
Wilt thou have pipe and reed,
Blown in the open mead?
Or to the lute give heed
In the green bowers.

Edward Thurlow, 1st Baron Thurlow

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#41. He that fancies himself very enlightened, because he sees the deficiencies of others, may be very ignorant, because he has not studied his own.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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#42. Much truth is spoken, that more may be concealed.

Charles Darling, 1st Baron Darling

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#43. Questions of personal priority, however interesting they may be to the persons concerned, sink into insignificance in the prospect of any gain of deeper insight into the secrets of nature.

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

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#44. June 1st is a date that is looming in everybody's mind with the final enforcement of the UIGEA. I actually think it may, finally, once and for all prove that it's an ineffective law. Congress created that law and now Congress has to do something to correct it.

John Pappas

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#45. You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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#46. Taste may be compared to that exquisite sense of the bee, which instantly discovers and extracts the quintessence of every flower, and disregards all the rest of it.

Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

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#47. Australian troops had, at Milne Bay, inflicted on the Japanese their first undoubted defeat on land. Some of us may forget that, of all the allies, it was the Australians who first broke the invincibility of the Japanese army.

William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

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#48. It may be true that every necessary war must also really be a just war; but it does not absolutely follow that every just war is a necessary war.

John Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Marquess Of Aberdeen And Temair

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#49. Science is an ocean. It is as open to the cockboat as the frigate. One man carries across it a freightage of ingots, another may fish there for herrings.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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