There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.
Walt Whitman

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
Walt Whitman

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.
Plato

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.
Plato

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.
Plato

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.
Plato

When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure.
Plato

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
Plato

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.
Hunter S. Thompson

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
Ansel Adams

May you live every day of your life.
Jonathan Swift

May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
Jonathan Swift

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Jonathan Swift

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.
Jonathan Swift

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
Jonathan Swift

It may be those who do most, dream most.
Stephen Leacock

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
Rodney Dangerfield

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
Thomas Paine