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Quotes About May

Puente levadizo y dama con sombrilla, MAYO DE 1888, TINTA Y TIZA SOBRE PAPEL, 60 X 31,9 CM © Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Ángeles, CA, USA.
~ Steven Naifeh
Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don; And through the blue heavens above us The very clouds move on.
~ Heinrich Heine
God, I'm in the same studio as de Burgh! He may have stood right where I'm standing now... and just thought his mad thoughts. Like "I am brilliant."
~ Bill Bailey
They had moved closer to one another to watch the dying moments of the day, this beautiful bright May day.
~ Guy de Maupassant
All that sultry May evening I danced physically with Christie, but in spirit with Tina. That special duality of the Davenports, of being able to haunt in absence, was so manifestly strong that several times I only saved myself by the sheerest miracle from calling the girl in the pale primrose dress by the wrong name.
~ H.E. Bates
Beautiful evening, ain't it?' Pop said. Once again, caught in his own web of enchantment, he turned to stare at an evening distilled now into even deeper gold by the lower angle of light falling across still seas of buttercups and long-curled milky waves of may.
~ H.E. Bates
Allen was perhaps a similar case, and may have persuaded the youth into accepting him as an avatar of the long-dead Curwen.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Spring's an expansive time: yet I don't trust March with its peck of dust, Nor April with its rainbow-crowned brief showers, Nor even May, whose flowers One frost may wither thro' the sunless hours.
~ Christina Rossetti
France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.
~ Francois Hollande
All ye that be lovers call unto your remembrance the month of May, like as did Queen Guenever, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.
~ Sir Thomas Malory
The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May.
~ Sir Thomas Malory
I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.
~ Louisa May Alcott
We have a friend, and Anglophile American city-dweller in his eighties, whose main ambition, now, is to hear a cuckoo call, for he never has, and perhaps he never will, for he is rather deaf. But, if he came and sat under the magic apple tree for an afternoon in May, it would be quiet enough, and then he might listen to the cuckoo-cuckoo-cuckoo until he had his fill.
~ Susan Hill
She would go away deep into the green and white and yellow countryside, and smell the may and lie in the grass and feel the world turning on its axis, and remember that it was a very large world, and that College griefs were mild and bitter but soon over and that in the Scale of Things they were undeniably Very Small Beer.
~ Josephine Tey
There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.
~ Theresa May
My favorite event of the season is the Costume Institute Gala at the Met in May. To that I'll wear custom Vera Wang.
~ Stephanie Winston Wolkoff
Death was as silent as the ocean bottom, as sweet as a rose in May.
~ Haruki Murakami
Im wunderschönen Monat Mai, Als alle Vögel sangen, Da ist meinem Herzen Die Liebe aufgegangen. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai, Als alle Knospen sprangen, Da hab' ich ihr gestanden Mein Sehnen und Verlangen. Translation: In the beautiful month of May, as all the birds were singing, love started to blossom inside of my heart. In the beautiful month of May, as all the buds were blossoming, I confessed to her my yearning and longing.
~ Heinrich Heine
There's certain stock lines that, you know, like heckler lines, you know, like, where did you learn to whisper, a helicopter, you know? Nobody owns those. I mean, someone first wrote it but it's been so universally used that it's common and it's called stock.
~ Ralphie May
Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
~ Sophocles
The clouds floating white and restless in the sky were those you see only in May or June. They were innocent companions, still young and flighty, who ran playfully across the blue road to hide suddenly behind high mountains, linking arms and running away, sometimes crumpling up like handkerchiefs, sometimes unravelling into streamers, and eventually playing a practical joke by setting themselves down on the mountain like white caps.
~ Stefan Zweig
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~ Michael E. Porter
But people may do great good accidentally, though with evil intentions - conversely people may do great evil though having the best of intentions.
~ Michael Moorcock
As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made.
~ Richard Barnfield