“Mornings in May echoed with the call of cuckoos, sunlight glowed through fresh green canopies of trees.” ― Meeta Ahluwalia. Here are 32 Motivational May Quotes.
May Quotes
1. “Make hay in May for you may never know what June is coming with and you may never know what July will present! When you see May, make hay!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
2. “Ah, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring into life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
3. “And a bird overhead sang Follow, And a bird to the right sang Here; And the arch of the leaves was hollow, And the meaning of May was clear.”
― Algernon Charles Swinburne
4. “Bright May afternoons— mango trees in the garden echoed with cuckoo calls.”
― Meeta Ahluwalia
5. “The month of May is the pleasant time; its face is beautiful; the blackbird sings his full song, the living wood is his holding, the cuckoos are singing and ever singing; there is a welcome before the brightness of the summer.”
― Lady Gregory, Finn, Son of Cumhal
6. “All things seem possible in May.” – Edwin Way Teale
7. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” - William James
8. “Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.”
― Karen Joy Fowler, Sarah Canary
May Quotes
9. “You are as welcome as the flowers in May.” – Charles Macklin
10. “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
11. “In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May when all the birds were singing, then did I reveal to her my yearning and longing.” – Heinrich Heine
12. “At last came the golden month of the wild folk-- honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the flowers come out, and the air is full of the sunrise scents and songs of the dawning year.”
― Samuel Scoville Jr., Wild Folk
13. “May is green and pink and red” ― Richard L. Ratliff
14. “The last days of May are among the longest of the year.”
― Alice Munro, What is Remembered
15. “Then you have to remember to be thankful; but in May one simply can't help being thankful . . . that they are alive, if for nothing else. I feel exactly as Eve must have felt in the garden of Eden before the trouble began.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea
16. “And after winter folweth grene May.” ― Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus, and Criseyde
May Quotes
17. “Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” – William Shakespeare
18. “Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.” – James Thomson
19. “The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit. – Thomas Malory
20. “May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive.– Fennel Hudson
21. “Let all thy joys be as the month of May, And all thy days be as a marriage day. – Francis Quarles
22. “Horticulturally, the month of May is opening night, homecoming, and graduation day all rolled into one. – Tam Mossman
23. “The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May. – Edwin Way Teale
24. “Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! Why has happiness no second Spring? – Charlotte Smith
May Quotes
25. “I thought that spring must last forevermore; For I was young and loved, and it was May. – Vera Brittain
26. “May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive.”
― Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
27. “As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer. – William Shakespeare
28. “But the outsider in May, the one from Briery Swamp who had never fit quite right, kept her tucked safely in her nook.”
― Jodi Lynn Anderson, May Bird Among the Stars
29. “The month of May is the pleasant time; its face is beautiful; the blackbird sings his full song, the living wood is his holding, the cuckoos are singing and ever singing; there is a welcome before the brightness of the summer. – Lady Gregory
30. “The only difference between May and Day is the M and D! Be a good Managing Director of your life each day in May.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
31. “May: the lilacs are in bloom. Forget yourself.” ― Marty Rubin
32. “I curled closer to May, comforted by her warmth.” ― Kiera Cass, The Elite
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