Sayings about Months
Even when months and days are long, life is short. ~ Japanese Proverbs
It is easier to be a happy bachelor for a year than a widower for a month. ~ Lebanese Proverb
A wretched year has twenty-four months. ~ Lebanese Proverb
If you would be happy for a month, kill a pig; but if you would be happy all your life, plant a garden. ~ Chinese Proverb
A man’s servant can live for a hundred years; the slave of a woman dies in six months. ~ Iranian Proverbs
He that would live for aye, must eat sage in May. ~ Latin proverbs
If you would be rich in a year, you may be hanged in six months. ~ Italian Proverbs
If you don’t want to be deceived, then marry on February 30th. ~ French Proverb
The cuckoo comes in April, and stays the month of May; sings a song at midsummer, and then goes away. ~ Traditional Proverb
Marry in May, rue for aye. ~ Traditional Proverb
March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. ~ Traditional Proverb
Wait for a month before you praise a horse, and for a year before you praise a woman. ~ Czech Proverb
April showers bring May flowers. ~ English Proverbs
A day of grief lasts longer than a month of joy. ~ Chinese Proverb
Get married and you will be happy for a week; slaughter a pig and you will be happy for a month; become a priest and you will be happy for the rest of your life. ~ Polish Proverbs
In a good word there are three winters’ warmth; in one malicious word there is pain for six frosty months. ~ Mongolian Proverb
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month’s study of books. ~ Chinese Proverb
Do not sell sun in July. ~ Italian Proverb
April and May make meal for the whole year. ~ Spanish Proverbs
After nine months the secret comes out. ~ Yiddish Proverb
One kind word can warm three winter months. ~ Japanese Proverb
Quotations about Months
January, month of empty pockets! let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter. ~ Nova Schubert Bair
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days. ~ James Russell Lowell
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. ~ William Shakespeare
October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book. ~John Sinor
If winter comes can spring be… We’re nearer to spring than we were in september, I heard a bird sing in the dark of december, january, febmar, aprimay, apricots, beneath the bough. ~ Sylvia Plath
While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best. ~ Tom Allen
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. ~ James M. Barrie
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues. ~ Hal Borland
There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter. ~ Billy Connolly
Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first of September was crisp and golden as an apple… ~ J.K. Rowling
We awoke one morning in September, and the world lurched on its axis. ~ Jeb Bush
If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray. ~ Madeleine M. Kunin
Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January. ~ Hal Borland
Plant carrots in January and you’ll never have to eat carrots. ~ Author Unknown
We spend the first twelve months of our children’s lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. ~ Phyllis Diller
In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other. ~Linda Ellerbee
…September days are here, with summer’s best of weather, and autumn’s best of cheer. ~ Helen Hunt Jackson
The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully. ~ Henry Rollins
February brings the rain, thaws the frozen lake again. ~ Sara Coleridge
On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, and heavy harvests nod beneath the snow. ~ Alexander Pope
February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day. ~ Randeep Hooda
What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade. ~ Gertrude Jekyll
February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March. ~ J.R. Stockton
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. ~ Charles Dickens
The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within. ~ William C. Bryant
October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again. ~ Hal Borland
We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost. ~ Henry Rollins
It’s a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it’s when you discover that your wife left you in May. ~ Denis Norden
Without Valentine’s Day, February would be… well, January. ~ Jim Gaffigan
January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow. ~ Sara Coleridge
Spring being a tough act to follow, God created June. ~ Al Bernstein
August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor. ~ Henry Rollins
No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July. ~ Mac Thornberry
There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon? ~ Dr. Seuss
It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside. ~ Maud Hart Lovelace
November, n. The eleventh twelfth of a weariness. ~ Ambrose Bierce
No man shall have the right to fix the boundary to the march of a Nation. ~ Charles Stewart Parnell
If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance. ~ Bernard Williams
What to the Slave is the 4th of July. ~ Frederick Douglass