You may imitate, but never counterfeit. Balzac. 35
You may know a wise man by his election of an aim, and a sagacious by his election of the means. Rückert.
You may overthrow a government in the twinkling of an eye, as you can blow up a ship or upset and sink one; but you can no more create a government with a word than an iron-clad. Ruskin.
You may paint with a very big brush, and yet not be a great painter. Carlyle.
You may rest upon this as an unfailing truth, that there neither is, nor ever was, any person remarkably ungrateful who was not also insufferably proud; nor any one proud who was not equally ungrateful. South.
You may ride 's / With one soft kiss a thousand 40 furlongs ere / With spur we heat an acre. Winter's Tale, i. 2.
You may say, "I wish to send this ball so as to kill the lion crouching yonder ready to spring upon me. My wishes are all right, and I hope Providence will direct the ball." Providence won't. You must do it; and if you do not, you are a dead man. Ward Beecher.
You might as well ask an oyster to make progress, as the people of any country in which grumbling could by any possibility be prohibited. John Wagstaffe.
You must be content sometimes with rough roads. Pr.
"You must be in the fashion," is the utterance of weak-headed mortals. Spurgeon.