Autumn Quotes and Sayings
Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower.
Autumn is the year’s last and loveliest smile.
October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter.
Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn.
- Elizabeth Lawrence
No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, no fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds – November.
Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all.
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
- John Donne
Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter’s pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
- David Letterman
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.
- Hal Borland
Autumn is the season of liberty for the leaves.
Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
There is a harmony
In autumn, and a lustre in its sky,
Which through the summer is not heard or seen,
As if it could not be, as if it had not been.
Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn.
The smile that flickers on baby’s lips when he sleeps- does anybody know where it was borne? Yes, there is a rumor that a young pale beam of a crescent moon
touched the edge of a vanishing autumn cloud, and there the smile was first born .
- Rabindranath Tagore
Deep inside, we’re still the boys of autumn, that magic time of the year that once swept us onto America’s fields.
I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.
Spring comes with flowers, autumn with the moon, summer with the breeze, winter with snow. When idle concerns don’t fill your thoughts, that’s your best
season.
But I remember more dearly autumn afternoons in bottoms that lay intensely silent under old great trees.
- C.S. Lewis
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.
The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease.
The spring, the summer,
The chilling autumn, angry winter, change
Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world
By their increase, now knows not which is which.
- William Shakespeare
Wild oats make a bad autumn crop.
How well I know what I mean to do when the long, dark autumn-evenings come.