May Quotes - Page 35

• Laurels grow in the Bay of Biscay, I hope a bed of them may be found in the Mediterranean.

  Horatio Nelson

  War, Bed, Found

  Horatio Nelson, Nicholas Harris Nicolas (2011). “The Dispatches and Letters of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson”, p.465, Cambridge University Press

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• All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to run from it, they still return back by one passage or another. Even Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Natural Religion, are in some measure dependent on the science of MAN; since they lie under the cognizance of men, and are judged of by their powers and faculties.

  David Hume

  Running, Philosophy, Lying

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• An act cannot be defined by the end sought by the actor, for an identical system of behaviour may be adjustable to too many different ends without altering its nature.

  Emile Durkheim

  Different, Behaviour, Actors

  Emile Durkheim (2005). “Suicide: A Study in Sociology”, p.41, Routledge

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• Thus we have given to man a pedigree of prodigious length, but not, it may be said, of noble quality.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Quality, Noble

  Charles Darwin (1875). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.165

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• There may be in every government a few choice spirits, who may act from more worthy motives. One great error is that we suppose mankind more honest than they are. Our prevailing passions are ambition and interest.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Passion, Ambition, Errors

  Alexander Hamilton (1904). “The Works of Alexander Hamilton”

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• Take mankind in general, they are vicious-their passions may be operated upon.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Passion, Human Nature, Vicious

  Alexander Hamilton (1962). “Jan.1787-May 1788”

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• In all general questions which become the subjects of discussion, there are always some truths mixed with falsehoods. I confess, there is danger where men are capable of holding two offices. Take mankind in general, they are vicious, their passions may be operated upon. We have been taught to reprobate the danger of influence in the British government, without duly reflecting how far it was necessary to support a good government. We have taken up many ideas upon trust, and at last, pleased with our own opinions, establish them as undoubted truths.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Taken, Passion, Men

  "The works of Alexander Hamilton".

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• We forge gradually our greatest instrument for understanding the world - introspection. We discover that humanity may resemble us very considerably - that the best way of knowing the inwardness of our neighbors is to know ourselves.

  Walter Lippmann

  Knowledge, Knowing, Understanding

  Walter Lippmann, Clinton Rossiter, James Lare (1982). “The Essential Lippmann: A Political Philosophy for Liberal Democracy”, p.135, Harvard University Press

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• How long will I love you?
  As long as stars are above you,
  And longer if I may

  Ellie Goulding

  Life, Stars, Love You

  Song: How Long Will I Love You, Album: Halcyon Days, 2013

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• Hell, nobody knows where jazz is going to go. There may be a kid right now in Chitlin Switch, Georgia, who is going to come along and upset everybody.

  Quincy Jones

  Music, Kids, Upset

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• Take your time, think a lot,
  Why, think of everything you've got.
  For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not.
  From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen.
  Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away.
  I know I have to go.

  Cat Stevens

  Dream, Travel, Thinking

  "Song: 'Father and Son' ('Tea for the Tillerman')". 1970.

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• As labor creates the wealth of the country, we demand the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect it in all its rights.

  John Peter Altgeld

  Country, Rights, Law

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• In its purest form, dating is auditioning for mating (and auditioning means we may or may not get the part).

  Joy Browne

  Mean, Dating, Form

  Joy Browne (2011). “Dating For Dummies”, p.2, John Wiley & Sons

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• Mothers, look after your daughters, keep them near you, keep their confidence - that they may be true and faithful.

  Elmina Shepard Taylor

  Faith, Daughter, Mother

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• Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.

  Vilayat Inayat Khan

  Mother, Spiritual, Pain

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• Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

  Samuel McChord Crothers

  Acceptance, Perfection, Trying

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• When you authorised Congress to borrow money, and to contract debts, for carrying on the late war, you could not intend to abridge them of the means of paying their engagements, made on your account. You may observe that their future power is confined to provide common defence and general welfare of the United States. If they apply money to any other purposes, they exceed their powers. The people of the United States who pay, are to be judges how far their money is properly applied.

  David Ramsey

  War, Mean, Judging

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• When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a bundle of staves would be troublesome. Thus a competency of these outward things may happily help us in the way to heaven, whereas abundance may be hurtful.

  Richard Sibbes

  Country, Men, Hands

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• We may not know who is craft beer but we sure as hell will know what is craft beer by who isn't.

  Alan Arnett McLeod

  Beer, Crafts, Hell

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• However, if we consider that all the characteristics which have been cited are only differences in degree of structure, may we not suppose that this special condition of organization of man has been gradually acquired at the close of a long period of time, with the aid of circumstances which have proved favorable? What a subject for reflection for those who have the courage to enter into it!

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Science, Reflection, Men

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• I have devoted my whole life to the study of Nature, and yet a single sentence may express all that I have done. I have shown that there is a correspondence between the succession of Fishes in geological times and the different stages of their growth in the egg,-this is all. It chanced to be a result that was found to apply to other groups and has led to other conclusions of a like nature.

  Louis Agassiz

  Nature, Science, Eggs

  Louis Agassiz (2003). “Agassiz on Evolution: Methods of study in natural history”

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• On the whole, at least in the author's experience, the preparation of species-specific antiserum fractions and the differentiation of closely related species with precipitin sera for serum proteins does not succeed so regularly as with agglutinins and lysins for blood cells. This may be due to the fact that in the evolutional scale the proteins undergo continuous variations whereas cell antigens are subject to sudden changes not linked by intermediary stages.

  Karl Landsteiner

  Science, Cells, Blood

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• One must believe that every living thing whatsoever must change insensibly in its organization and in its form... One must therefore never expect to find among living species all those which are found in the fossil state, and yet one may not assume that any species has really been lost or rendered extinct.

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Believe, Science, Organization

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• The scientific doctrine of progress is destined to replace not only the myth of progress, but all other myths of human earthly destiny. It will inevitably become one of the cornerstones of man's theology, or whatever may be the future substitute for theology, and the most important external support for human ethics.

  Julian Huxley

  Science, Destiny, Men

  Julian Huxley (1957). “New Bottles for New Wine: Essays”

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• As weird and awful and terrible as it may seem to be yourself sometimes, it will always reward you.

  Jenna Marbles

  Being Yourself, Rewards, Awful

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