Quotes About June

The stuff of vacations and verse

Kiki Wellington
I quote, therefore I am.

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June is the month when we get ready for a long, hot summer — and wonder where the first half of the year went. There’s a lot to love about June: longer days, warmer nights, and ushering in vacation season. June is also the inspiration for many beautiful quotes, and the following are some of them.

1. “A dripping June sets all in tune.”
-English proverb

2. “A noise like of a hidden brook
In the leafy month of June,
That to the sleeping woods all night
Singeth a quiet tune.”
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

3. “O, my Luve’s like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve’s like the melodie
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.”
-Robert Burns

4. “June comes in with roses in her
hand, but very often with a thick
shawl on her shoulders, and a bad
cold in her head.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes

5. “And what is so rare as a day in June?
Then, if ever, come perfect days;
Then Heaven tries earth if it be in…

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