May Quotes - Page 2

• Ah! my heart is weary waiting,
  Waiting for the May:
  Waiting for the pleasant rambles
  Where the fragrant hawthorn brambles,
  Where the woodbine alternating,
  Scent the dewy way;
  Ah! my heart is weary, waiting,
  Waiting for the May.

  Denis Florence MacCarthy

  Heart, Waiting, Scent

  Denis Florence MacCarthy “Poems”, Lulu.com

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• We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Strength, Beach

  Hansard 4 June 1940, col. 796

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• Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

  Rollo May

  Art, Creativity, Rivers

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.115, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet,
  Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet,
  And golden locks in breezy play,
  Half teasing and half tender, to repeat
  Her song of May.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Song, Sweet, Spring

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• Hebe's here, May is here!
  The air is fresh and sunny;
  And the miser-bees are busy
  Hoarding golden honey.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Air, Hoarding, Honey

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1882). “The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• 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

  Myrtle, Sitting, Shade

  'Poems: In Divers Humours' (1598) 'An Ode'

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• I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Beauty, Sarcastic

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• You may delay, but time will not.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Benjamin Franklin (1998). “Benjamin Franklin Wit and Wisdom”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Business, Good Life

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 4, sc. 5, l. [43]

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• Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream—For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Sleep

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace! – but there is no peace.

  Patrick Henry

  Gentleman, Patriotism, Cry

  Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, delivered 23 March 1775 at Henrico Parrish Church St, Richmond Virginia, Second Virginia Convention

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• For in that sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Sleep

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• I am still determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may be.

  Martha Washington

  Happiness, Happy, Attitude

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• Oh! that we two were Maying
  Down the stream of the soft spring breeze;
  Like children with violets playing,
  In the shade of the whispering trees.

  Charles Kingsley

  Children, Spring, Two

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Saint's Tragedy: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.111, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

  Phillips Brooks

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

  Saint Augustine

  Faith, Believe, Catholic

  Saint Augustine, John W. Rettig (1993). “Tractates on the Gospel of John 28–54 (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 88)”, p.18, CUA Press

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• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  Patrick Henry

  Death, Sweet, Freedom

  Speech in Virginia Convention, Richmond, Va., 23 Mar. 1775.

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• In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

  Aldo Leopold

  Anniversary, Nature, Spring

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.82, Oxford University Press

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• Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

  Thomas Tusser

  Sweet, Spring, Flower

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• I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Peace, Men

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 46

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• To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Dream, Halloween

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• May is a pious fraud of the almanac.

  James Russell Lowell

  Spring, Fraud, Pious

  'Under the Willows' (1869) l. 21

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• Believe that you may understand.

  Saint Augustine

  Believe, Hippo

  Saint Augustine (2010). “Sermons on the Liturgical Seasons (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 38)”, p.141, CUA Press

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• Spring, the sweet Spring, is the year's pleasant king;
  Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring,
  Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing-
  Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
  
  The palm and may make country houses gay,
  Lambs frisk and play, the shepherds pipe all day,
  And we hear aye birds tune this merry lay-
  Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
  
  The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet,
  Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit,
  In every street these tunes our ears do greet-
  Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!
  Spring, the sweet Spring!

  Thomas Nashe

  Country, Sweet, Kings

  'Summer's Last Will and Testament' (1600) Song

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• The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.

  Thomas Malory

  Heart, Lust, April And Spring

  'Le Morte D'Arthur' (1485) bk. 18, ch. 25

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