May Day Quotes

"The world's favorite season is the spring.
All things seem possible in May."
- Edwin Way Teale

"As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer."
- William Shakespeare

"Sweet April showers
Do spring May flowers."
- T. Tusser

"Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun."
- Kahlil Gibran

"But winter lingering chills the lap of May."
- Oliver Goldsmith

"Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed."
- James Thomson

"What potent blood hath modest May."
- Ralph W. Emerson

"O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!"
- Helen Hunt Jackson

"Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date."
- William Shakespeare

 



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