You make but a poor trap to catch luck if you 25 go and bait it with wickedness. George Eliot.
You may as soon separate weight from lead, heat from fire, moistness from water, and brightness from the sun, as misery, discontent, calamity, and danger from man. Burton.
You may as well ask a loom which weaves huckaback why it does not make cashmere, as expect poetry from this engineer, or a chemical discovery from that jobber. Emerson.
You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilise, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone; certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners. Coleridge.
You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good. Lavater.
(You may) dig the deep foundations of a long-abiding 30 fame, / And wist not that they undermine (your) home of love and peace. Dr. W. C. Smith.
You may do anything with bayonets except sit on them. Napoleon.
You may fail to shine, in the opinion of others, both in your conversation and actions, from being superior as well as inferior to them. Greville.
You may grow good corn in a little field. Pr.
You may have to wait a bit—some of you a shorter, some a longer time; but do wait, and everything will fit in and be perfect at last. Mrs. Gatty.