May Quotes - Page 34

• And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever happens to anybody it may be turned to beautiful results.

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Adversity, Imperfection

  Walt Whitman (2011). “Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition”, p.15, University of Iowa Press

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• That which lies before the human race is a constant struggle to maintain and improve, in opposition to State of Nature, the State of Art of an organized polity; in which, and by which, man may develop a worthy civilization

  Thomas Huxley

  Art, Nature, Lying

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1997). “The Major Prose of Thomas Henry Huxley”, p.307, University of Georgia Press

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• We have no knowledge, that is, no general principles drawn from the contemplation of particular facts, but what has been built up by pleasure, and exists in us by pleasure alone. The Man of Science, the Chemist and Mathematician, whatever difficulties and disgusts they may have had to struggle with, know and feel this. However painful may be the objects with which the Anatomist's knowledge is connected, he feels that his knowledge is pleasure; and where he has no pleasure he has no knowledge.

  William Wordsworth

  Pain, Struggle, Knowledge

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth (2015). “Lyrical Ballads and other Poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth (Including Their Thoughts On Poetry Principles and Secrets): Collections of Poetry which marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature, including poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, The Dungeon, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode”, p.211, e-artnow

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• The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.

  Arthur Rubinstein

  Spring, Symphony, Perfect

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• I thought that spring must last forevermore, For I was young and loved, and it was May.

  Vera Brittain

  Spring, Lasts, Young

  Vera Brittain (2008). “Because You Died: Poetry and Prose of the First World War and After”, Virago Press

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• Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.

  George Herbert

  Spring, Springtime, Spring Season

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.363

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• Therefore, if a great kingdom humbles itself before a small kingdom, it shall make that small kingdom its prize. And if a small kingdom humbles itself before a great kingdom, it shall win over that great kingdom. Thus the one humbles itself in order to attain, the other attains because it is humble. If the great kingdom has no further desire than to bring men together and to nourish them, the small kingdom will have no further desire than to enter the service of the other. But in order that both may have their desire, the great one must learn humility.

  Laozi

  Humble, Humility, Winning

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• Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.

  Dalai Lama

  Clever, Humility, Pride

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• Promiscuity in men may cheapen love but sharpen thought. Promiscuity in women is illness, a leakage of identity.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Identity, Illness

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson”, Vintage

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• For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.

  Joseph A. Schumpeter

  Class, People, Identity

  Joseph Alois Schumpeter (1955). “Imperialism and Social Classes: Two Essays”, p.126, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Our attitude toward abortion . . . is fixed by our knowledge that according to an eternal plan all of the spirit children of God must come to this earth for a glorious purpose, and that individual identity began long before conception and will continue for all the eternities to come. We rely on the prophets of God who have told us that while there may be 'rare' exceptions, 'the practice of elective abortion is fundamentally contrary to the Lord's injunction, 'Thou shalt not . . . kill, nor do anything like unto it'

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Children, Attitude, Practice

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• I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, 'I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.'

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Champion, Identity, Excess

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.94, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The policy or advantage of [immigration] taking place in a body (I mean the settling of them in a body) may be much questioned; for, by so doing, they retain the language, habits, and principles (good or bad) which they bring with them. Whereas by an intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures, and laws: in a word, soon become one people.

  George Washington

  Mean, Law, People

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• I recently spoke with Barbara Jordan of the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, and I increasingly believe we need a system to verify employment eligibility. The Commission's recommendation of a national registry may be the way to go.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Immigration, Reform

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• I do not believe that the people of the United States are going to take people who have been here a quarter century, who have children and grandchildren, who are members of the community, who may have done something 25 years ago, separate them from their families, and expel them.

  Newt Gingrich

  Children, Believe, Years

  "Where GOP candidates stand on immigration". Republican Presidential debate in Washington, D.C., www.sandiegouniontribune.com. November 22, 2011.

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• According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Lying, Rain, Mirrors

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• If you should look for this place after a handful of lifetimes:
  Perhaps of my planted forest a few
  May stand yet, dark-leaved Australians or the coast cypress, haggard
  With storm-drift; but fire and the axe are devils.
  Look for foundations of sea-worn granite, my fingers had the art
  To make stone love stone, you will find some remnant.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Art, Home, Dark

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (2001). “The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers”, p.181, Stanford University Press

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• In the evaluation of the dominant moods of any historical period it is important to hold fast to the fact that there are always islands of self-sufficient order — on farms and in castles, in homes, studies, and cloisters — where sensible people manage to live relatively lusty and decent lives: as moral as they must be, as free as they may be, and as masterly as they can be. If we only knew it, this elusive arrangement is happiness.

  Erik Erikson

  Happiness, Home, People

  "Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History".

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• If the day ever comes when they know who They are, they may know better where they are.

  Robert Frost

  Home, Knows, Ifs

  Robert Frost (1975). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with a robe of imbroidered worke, set with orient pearles, and garnished with great diversitie of rare and costly jewels? The delight is great but the use greater, and joyned often with necessitie.

  John Gerard

  Beauty, Home, Men

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• If ever household affections and loves are graceful things, they are graceful in the poor. The ties that bind the wealthy and the proud to home may be forged on earth, but those which link the poor man to his humble hearth are of the true metal and bear the stamp of heaven.

  Charles Dickens

  Inspirational, Home, Humble

  Charles Dickens (1841). “The Old Curiosity Shop”, p.2, B Times

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• One's home is like a delicious piece of pie you order in a restaurant on a country road one cozy evening - the best piece of pie you have ever eaten in your life - and can never find again. After you leave home, you may find yourself feeling homesick, even if you have a new home that has nicer wallpaper and a more efficient dishwasher than the home in which you grew up.

  Daniel Handler

  Country, Home, Order

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• There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve, then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

  Walt Kelly

  Hands, Enemy, Needs

  Walt Kelly (1974). “Pogo revisited: containing the complete volumes of The Pogo poop book, Instant Pogo [and] The Jack Acid Society black book”, Simon & Schuster

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• Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

  Alexander Hamilton

  War, Ambition, Moderation

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2009). “The Federalist”, p.208, Harvard University Press

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• Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.

  Samuel Johnson

  War, Young, Made

  Quoted in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson (1791) (entry for Spring 1772)

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