May God protect me from gloomy saints.
‐‐ Saint Teresa of Avila
May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not.
‐‐ Millard Fillmore
May hard work, and justice, always cement our bonds of unity that we may get our country back to production.
‐‐ Mwai Kibaki
May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
‐‐ J. Reuben Clark
May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea.
‐‐ Swami Vivekananda
May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
‐‐ Zebulon Pike
May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.
‐‐ Franz Kafka
May I make a suggestion, hoping it is not an impertinence? Write it down: write down what you feel. It is sometimes a wonderful help in misery.
‐‐ Robertson Davies
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good.
‐‐ Ralph Thomas Walker
May I say, if you were suddenly put into a woman's body, wouldn't you be slightly interested in your breasts, and why people look at certain parts of you, and why certain parts move like they do?
‐‐ Kristen Johnston
May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast.
‐‐ Alastair Campbell
May I suggest that people in many African countries could be suffering from donation fatigue?
‐‐ Nicky Oppenheimer
May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven.
‐‐ Roger Bannister
May is the month when people focus on mothers more than any other time of year.
‐‐ Christy Turlington
May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.
‐‐ Samuel Freeman Miller
May it please Christ our Lord to grant us true humility and abnegation of will and judgment, so that we may deserve to begin to be His disciples.
‐‐ Saint Ignatius
MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.
‐‐ James Otis
May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.
‐‐ Pierre de Coubertin
May love's kindred treasure box fling your luminescent glove.
‐‐ Isabel Yosito
May my soul bloom in love for all existence.
‐‐ Rudolf Steiner
May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.
‐‐ David McCullough
May not music be described as the mathematics of the sense, mathematics as music of the reason? The musician feels mathematics, the mathematician thinks music: music the dream, mathematics the working life.
‐‐ James Joseph Sylvester
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
‐‐ Charles Dickens
May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.
‐‐ Ignatius of Antioch
May peace rule the universe, may peace rule in kingdoms and empires, may peace rule in states and in the lands of the potentates, may peace rule in the house of friends and may peace also rule in the house of enemies.
‐‐ Virchand Gandhi
May the days be aimless. Do not advance action according to a plan.
‐‐ Don DeLillo
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
‐‐ George Carlin
May the friends of America rejoice! May her enemies be humbled and her censors silenced at the news of her noble exertions in continuance of those principles which have placed her so high in the annals of history and among the nations of the earth.
‐‐ Marquis de Lafayette
May the God of your choice bless and keep you. I respect Him as long as He does not circumcise me anymore.
‐‐ Kinky Friedman
May the Lord destroy all the tyrants of the church. Amen.
‐‐ Michael Servetus
May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
‐‐ Nathaniel Smith
May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.
‐‐ Saint Ignatius
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
‐‐ Daniel Boone
May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
‐‐ Yoweri Museveni
May the spirit of devotion to duty which inspires us always dominate this Committee's conferences!
‐‐ Gustav Krupp
May the States be so bound to each other as forever to defy European politics. Upon that union, their consequence, their happiness, will depend. This is the first wish of a heart more truly American than words can express.
‐‐ Marquis de Lafayette
May the work for the further development of chemical science, which has its strongest roots in this beautiful, strong and hard-working country of Sweden, continue to flourish in the future, for the promotion of culture and the benefit of mankind.
‐‐ Otto Wallach
May there always be peace, love and happiness in every house.
‐‐ Islom Karimov
May these happy United States attain that complete splendour and prosperity which will illustrate the blessings of their government, and for ages to come rejoice the departed souls of their founders!
‐‐ Marquis de Lafayette
May these vows and this marriage be blessed.
‐‐ Rumi
May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world.
‐‐ Jonathan Carroll
May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise.
‐‐ Rumi
May this plain statement of facts prevail on the friends of the rising generation to interpose for their welfare; that the education of children may no longer be to parent and master a lottery, in which the prizes bear no proportion to the enormous number of blanks.
‐‐ Joseph Lancaster
May those who enjoy the faithful ministry of the Word feel exceedingly thankful for it. There are few blessings on Earth greater for a believer; and yet the Lord is frequently obliged to teach us the value of this blessing by depriving us of it for a season.
‐‐ George Muller
May we agree that private life is irrelevant? Multiple, mixed, ambiguous at best - out of it we try to fashion the crystal clear, the singular, the absolute, and that is what is relevant; that is what matters.
‐‐ May Sarton
May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women who fought for us, labored for us, bled soil from the beaches of Normandy to the fields of Gettysburg for us.
‐‐ Cory Booker
May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
‐‐ Yahya Jammeh
May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon
May we have communion with God in the secret of our hearts, and find Him to be to us as a little sanctuary.
‐‐ Charles Spurgeon