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Autumn Quotations




Samuel Butler (top)
Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.
- Samuel Butler


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


John Donne (top)
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one autumnal face.
- John Donne


George Eliot (top)
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


Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes (top)
The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.
- Oliver Wendell, Sr. Holmes


P.D. James (top)
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
- P.D. James


Edwin Way Teale (top)
For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.
- Edwin Way Teale