It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
Every vice was once a virtue, and may become respectable again, just as hatred becomes respectable in wartime.
We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.
Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
Time, place, and action may with pains be wrought, but genius must be born; and never can be taught.
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
Singing is my dream and, while it may have not been a commercial success, critically I was thrilled with the reception my first album got.
To know anything of a poet but his poetry is, so far as the poetry is concerned, to know something that may be entertaining, even delightful, but is certainly inessential.
It is commonly asserted and accepted that Paradise Lost is among the two or three greatest English poems; it may justly be taken as the type of supreme poetic achievement in our literature.
I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.
If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness.
I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.
My favorite poets may not be your bread and butter. I have more favorite poems than favorite poets.