Quotes About May
Celebrating the month of bloom
The April showers are drying up and the May flowers are beginning to bloom from the wet nourishment they drank in last month. Firmly in spring, May is the month of bloom and these quotes celebrate the fragrant beauty.
1. “Who first beholds the light of day
In spring’s sweet flowery month of May
And wears an emerald all her life
Shall be a loved and happy wife.”
-Anonymous
2. “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
3. “What potent blood hath modest May.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. “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.
5. “The word May is a perfumed word….It means youth, love, song; and all that is beautiful in life.”
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
6. “You are as welcome as the flowers in May.”
-Charles Macklin
