Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. - George Eliot 

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all. - Stanley Horowitz

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons. - Jim Bishop

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. - Albert Camus

October’s poplars are flaming torches lighting the way to winter. - Nova Bair

How beautifully leaves grow old.  How full of light and color are their last days. – John Burroughs

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been! – Percy Bysshe Shelley

The one red leaf, the last of its clan,
That dances as often as dance it can,
Hanging so light, and hanging so high,
On the topmost twig that looks up at the sky.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There ought to be a way to combine “autumn” and “morning” into one word, the combination of the two is special enough to be its own entity.  - Terri Guillemets

Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.- Lauren DeStefano, Wither

I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. – L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile. – William Cullen Bryant

I loved autumn, the one season of the year that God seemed to have put there just for the beauty of it. – Lee Maynard

There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves. – Joe L. Wheeler

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn. – Elizabeth Lawrence

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.  –  Henry James

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer. –  F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.  – Bern Williams

Sun is shining. Weather is sweet. Make you wanna move your dancing feet. – Bob Marley

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.  -  Gertrude Jekyll

When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That’s because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but catch bugs all day. - Roy Blount Jr.

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.  – Celia Thaxter

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.  – Wallace Stevens

In summer, the song sings itself.  – William Carlos Williams

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.  – Sam Keen

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. -  Anton Chekhov

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.  – John Lubbock

Each fairy breath of summer, as it blows with loveliness, inspires the blushing rose.  – Author Unknown

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year – it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.  – Author Unknown

Then followed that beautiful season… Summer….
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I drifted into a summer-nap under the hot shade of July, serenaded by a cicadae lullaby, to drowsy-warm dreams of distant thunder.  – Terri Guillemets

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A mother’s arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them. -Victor Hugo

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs…since the payment is pure love.  -Mildred B. Vermont

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother. -Abraham Lincoln

The sweetest sounds to mortals given
Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.
-William Goldsmith Brown

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been.  -Robert Brault

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. -George Washington

Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.  -Author Unknown

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born.  She never existed before.  The woman existed, but the mother, never.  A mother is something absolutely new.  -Rajneesh

All mothers are working mothers.  -Author Unknown

When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts.  A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.  -Sophia Loren

Mother love is the fuel that enables a normal human being to do the impossible.  -Marion C. Garretty

The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world. -William Ross Wallace

Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.  -T. DeWitt Talmage

A mother is a mother still,
The holiest thing alive.
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me.  They have clung to me all my life.  -Abraham Lincoln

Mother, the ribbons of your love are woven around my heart.  -Author Unknown

Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.  -Oprah Winfrey

A mom’s hug lasts long after she lets go.  -Author Unknown

Who fed me from her gentle breast
And hushed me in her arms to rest,
And on my cheek sweet kisses prest?
My Mother.
-Ann Taylor

A mother’s heart is a patchwork of love.  -Author Unknown

Mom, when thoughts of you are in our hearts, we are never far from home.  -Author Unknown

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.  -Washington Irving

Most mothers are instinctive philosophers.  -Harriet Beecher Stowe

Making the decision to have a child is momentous.  It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.  -Elizabeth Stone

Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children.  -Marilyn Penland

There is only one pretty child in the world, and every mother has it.  -Chinese Proverb

Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My mother.
-Ann Taylor

There are only two kinds of people in the world: the Irish and those who wish they were. – Author Unknown

For each petal on the shamrock
This brings a wish your way -
Good health, good luck, and happiness
For today and every day.
- Author Unknown

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he lucky?  – Stanislaw J. Lec

What do you get when you cross poison ivy with a four-leaf clover?  A rash of good luck.  -Author Unknown

May your blessings outnumber
The shamrocks that grow,
And may trouble avoid you
Wherever you go.
- Irish Blessing

May the Irish hills caress you.
May her lakes and rivers bless you.
May the luck of the Irish enfold you.
May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.
- Irish Blessing

So, success attend St. Patrick’s fist,
For he’s a saint so clever;
Oh! he gave the snakes and toads a twist,
And bothered them forever!
- Henry Bennett

Here’s to a long life and a merry one.
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer – and another one!                                                                                                                                               - St. Patrick’s Day toast

Saint Patrick was a gentleman, who through strategy and stealth
Drove all the snakes from Ireland, here’s a drink to his health!
But not too many drinks, lest we lose ourselves and then
Forget the good Saint Patrick, and see them snakes again!
-Author Unknown

Never iron a four-leaf clover, because you don’t want to press your luck.  - Daryl Stout

May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past. – Irish saying

When Irish eyes are smiling,
‘Tis like a morn in spring.
With a lilt of Irish laughter
You can hear the angels sing.
- Author Unknown

He was a terror to any snake that came in his path, whether it was the cold, slimy reptile sliding along the ground or the more dangerous snake that oppresses men through false teachings.  And he drove the snakes out of the minds of men, snakes of superstition and brutality and cruelty. – Arthur Brisbane

Oh, while a man may dream awake,
On gentle Irish ground,
‘Tis Paradise without the snake -
That’s easy to be found.
- Frederick Langbridge

For ’tis green, green, green, where the ruined towers are gray,
And it’s green, green, green, all the happy night and day;
Green of leaf and green of sod, green of ivy on the wall,
And the blessed Irish shamrock with the fairest green of all.
- Mary Elizabeth Blake

O, the red rose may be fair,
And the lily statelier;
But my shamrock, one in three
Takes the very heart of me!
- Katherine Tynan

If you’re enough lucky to be Irish, you’re lucky enough!  – Irish Saying

May luck be our companion
May friends stand by our side
May history remind us all
Of Ireland’s faith and pride.
May God bless us with happiness
May love and faith abide.
- Irish Blessing

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light,
May good luck pursue you each morning and night.
- Irish Blessing

Oh! St. Patrick was a gentleman
Who came of decent people;
He built a church in Dublin town,
And on it put a steeple.
- Henry Bennett

Wandered from the Antrim hills,
Wandered from the Killalas rills,
Patrick heard upon the breeze
Voices from the Irish seas.
- Author Unknown

If you hold a four-leaf shamrock in your left hand at dawn on St. Patrick’s Day you get what you want very much but haven’t wished for.  – Patricia Lynch

With the frost he kindled fire;
Drove the snakes from brake and brier,
Hurling out the writhing brood
With the lightning of his rood.
- Edwin Markham

The list of Irish saints is past counting; but in it all no other figure is so human, friendly, and lovable as St. Patrick – who was an Irishman only by adoption.  – Stephen Gwynn

Leprechauns, castles, good luck and laughter
Lullabies, dreams, and love ever after.
Poems and songs with pipes and drums
A thousand welcomes when anyone comes.
- Author Unknown

“Faults are thick where love is thin.” – English Proverb

“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.”  -Mother Teresa

“Love is unselfishly choosing for another’s highest good.”  - C. S. Lewis

“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk everything, you risk even more.”  - Erica Jong

“There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved.  It is God’s finger on man’s shoulder.”  – Charles Morgan

“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence.”  – Eric Fromm

“Love fails, only when we fail to love.”  -  J. Franklin

“Infatuation is when you think he’s as sexy as Robert Redford, as smart as Henry Kissinger, as noble as Ralph Nader, as funny as Woody Allen, and as athletic as Jimmy Conners.  Love is when you realize that he’s as sexy as Woody Allen, as smart as Jimmy Connors, as funny as Ralph Nader, as athletic as Henry Kissinger and nothing like Robert Redford – but you’ll take him anyway.”   -Judith Viorst

“To love at all is to be vulnerable.”  - C.S. Lewis

“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.”  – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”  - David Viscott

“Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river.”  – Malagasy Proverb

“People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.”  - John Harrigan

“Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.”  – Mark Overby

“Love is a symbol of eternity.  It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.”  – Author Unknown

“Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.”  – Peter Ustinov

“Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.”   - Mignon McLaughlin

“The art of love… is largely the art of persistence.”  – Albert Ellis

“Love one another and you will be happy.  It’s as simple and as difficult as that.”  – Michael Leunig

“Who, being loved, is poor?”  – Oscar Wilde

“Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.”  – Henry David Thoreau

“A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it.”  – Frank A. Clark

“Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”  – Robert Heinlein

“We loved with a love that was more than love.”  – Edgar Allan Poe

“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.”  – Jean Anouilh

“Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.”  – Rose Franken

“Love is like dew that falls on both nettles and lilies.”  – Swedish Proverb

“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”  – Henry Van Dyke

“Only in love are unity and duality not in conflict.”  – Rabindranath Tagore

“It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.”  – John Bulwer

“’Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark our coming, and look brighter when we come.”  – Lord Byron

“Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.”  – Author unknown, as printed in The Hoosier Farmer

“Love doesn’t sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all of the time, made new.”  -Ursula K. Le Guin

“Love is not singular except in syllable.”  – Marvin Taylor

“He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.”  – Leo Tolstoy

“You don’t have to go looking for love when it’s where you come from.”  – Werner Erhard

“I don’t think you can keep someone you truly love at arm’s length on purpose, they’ll always end up in your arms.”  – Holly Nichole Miller

“Love is a game that two can play and both win.”  – Eva Gabor

“Without love, the rich and poor live in the same house.”  – Author Unknown

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights.  If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”  -Erich Segal

“You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.”  – Author Unknown

“Love is friendship set on fire.” – Unknown

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”  – Tom Robbins

“The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved – loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”  – Victor Hugo

“Love is the greatest refreshment in life.”  – Pablo Picasso

“What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.”  – Pearl Bailey

Quotes for New Year’s Day

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.”  -  Benjamin Franklin

“Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve.  Middle age is when you’re forced to.”  -  Bill Vaughn

“Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it’s twice as onerous a duty.”  - John Selden

“If you’re running a 26-mile marathon, remember that every mile is run one step at a time. If you are writing a book, do it one page at a time. If you’re trying to master a new language, try it one word at a time. There are 365 days in the average year. Divide any project by 365 and you’ll find that no job is all that intimidating.” – Chuck Swindoll

“An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.”   –  Bill Vaughan

“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”  - Edith Lovejoy Pierce

“No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference.  It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left.  It is the nativity of our common Adam.”   –   Charles Lamb

“Many people look forward to the new year for a new start on old habits.”   – Author Unknown

“New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.”    -  Charles Lamb

“A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.”   – Author Unknown

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”   –  Oprah Winfrey

“Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.”
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850

“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.”  -  Hal Borland

“The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.”
-  Hartley Coleridge

“People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas.”   – Author Unknown

“New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.”  - Hamilton Wright Mabie

“The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk.  This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.”  - P.J. O’Rourke

“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language
And next year’s words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.”
-  T.S. Eliot, “Little Gidding”

“We will open the book.  Its pages are blank.  We are going to put words on them ourselves.  The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”   –  Edith Lovejoy Pierce

“Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past.  Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.”  -  Brooks Atkinson

“Each age has deemed the new-born year. The fittest time for festal cheer.”  -  Walter Scott

“Glory to God in highest heaven,
Who unto man His Son hath given;
While angels sing with tender mirth,
A glad new year to all the earth.”
-  Martin Luther

“But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty?  I live according to twenty-year-old habits.”  -  Andre Gide

“Many years ago I resolved never to bother with New Year’s resolutions, and I’ve stuck with it ever since.”   – Dave Beard

“One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this:  To rise above the little things.”  - John Burroughs

“Of all sound of all bells… most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.” – Charles Lamb

“A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I’ve played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.”
-   Edgar Guest

“It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets.”  -   William Thomas

“We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched.  Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives… not looking for flaws, but for potential.”  - Ellen Goodman

“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year.  It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes.  Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions.  Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.”  -  G.K. Chesterton

“I think in terms of the day’s resolutions, not the year’s.”  -  Henry Moore