In small woods may be caught large hares.
A single stick may smoke, but it will not burn.
Every door may be shut but death's door.
One may have good eyes and see nothing.
What may be done at any time will be done at no time.
Ye may not sit in Rome and strive with the Pope.
A decision made at night may be changed in the morning.
Who has a trade may go anywhere.
Great gaps may be filled with small stones.
Ne'er cast a clout till May be out.
To both the racist and the puritan, childhood is not a time of life that we grow out of, as the life of the child grows out of the life of the parent or as a plant grows out of the soil, but a time to be left behind, to cut oneself off from ... The c...
The man who wishes to know the "that" which is "thou" may set to work in any one of three ways. He may begin by looking inwards into his own particular thou and, by a process of "dying to self" --- self in reasoning, self in willing, self in feeling ...
It's all a matter of perception. What one person deems to be important may be just as equally unimportant to another. What one deems to be right may seem very wrong to someone else. Your moral compass and values may not always be totally in sync with...
But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.
May you live forever, and may I never die.
Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. I have to - to balance the family ticket.
They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.
In 1985, I saw a tape of myself where my eyes were puffy. I looked very tired and bedraggled and not as youthful as I would like to have been.