Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.
Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen.
You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.
If you will take her, you may take her, but if you go from aboard, you shall never come aboard again.
What we are is not all that we may become.
They may fight with us, but they don't fight for us.
I may be heaven-sent, but I'm not perfect.
In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.
We may be coming to a new golden age of instrument making.
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Art is not predictable. Art is not golf, as great as that may be. There are 360 degrees of choice to make.
Mi-ai otrăvit sângele şi nu mai pot trăi fără otrava ta.
so that it may grow fatter and
For mad I may be, but I will never be convenient.
It may have been quixotic, but it was magnificent.
The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.
May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.
The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.
