“ October's foliage yellows with his cold: In rattling showers dark November's rain, From every stormy cloud, descends amain, Till keen December's snows close up the year again. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
- 2K
“ Is it the shrewd October wind Brings the tears into her eyes? Does it blow so strong that she must fetch Her breath in sudden sighs? ”
- William Dean Howells- Copy
- 2K
“ The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mould The purple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough Drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold. ”
- Bear Bryant- Copy
- 1.5K
“ And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October's wood. ”
- John Greenleaf Whittier- Copy
- 1.4K
“ October turned by maple's leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers; Soon these will slip from the twig's weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser's fingers. ”
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich- Copy
- 3.4K
“ There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
- 538
“ Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves. ”
- Humbert Wolfe- Copy
- 3.4K
“ October is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. Others are July, January, April, September, November, May, March, June, December, August and February. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October. ”
- John Leonard- Copy
- 657
“ October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again. ”
- Hal Borland- Copy
- 3K
“ And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
- 1.5K
“ October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 524
“ O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October's bright blue weather. ”
- Helen Hunt Jackson- Copy
- 862
“ On the 31st of October, at ten o'clock in the morning, the troop disembarked on the quays of Tampa Town; and one may imagine the activity which pervaded that little town, whose population was thus doubled in a single day. ”
- Jules Verne- Copy
- 800
“ October is the month for painted leaves.... As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a bright tint just before they fall, so the year near its setting. October is its sunset sky; November the later twilight. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 765
“ I had a very bad year in my life. My mother died in February. I was 16 in April and graduated from high school that June. My father died in August and the mortgage was foreclosed in October. I can remember thinking, This is tough, but this is good for me… ”
- James Rouse- Copy
- 3.3K
“ I was about 11 when I came to the U.S. in '69. I got a crash course in baseball that October when the Mets won the World Series. Even though we moved to northern New York, it was a Yankees town if anything. The Mets were my team from then on. I've stuck with them through thick and thin. ”
- Viggo Mortensen- Copy
- 183
“ October gave a party; The leaves by hundreds came - The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples, And leaves of every name. The Sunshine spread a carpet, And everything was grand, Miss Weather led the dancing, Professor Wind the band. ”
- George Cooper- Copy
- 1.6K
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