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- A man’s heart changes as often as does the autumn sky.~ Japanese Proverb
- And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England.~Jill Dando
- Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.~ Elizabeth Bowen
- Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.~ Albert Camus
- Autumn is my favorite season.~ Johnny Kelly
- A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.~ e. e. cummings
- Chickens are counted in autumn.~ Russian Proverb
- 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
- Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.~ David Letterman
- For man, autumn is a time of harvest, of gathering together. For nature, it is a time of sowing, of scattering abroad.~ Edwin Teale
- He ate one fig and he thought the autumn had come.~ Tunisian Proverb
- 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
- If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It’s a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it’s time to reflect on what’s come before.~ Mitchell Burgess
- If you do not sow in the spring you will not reap in the autumn.~ Irish Proverb
- In the garden, Autumn is, indeed the crowning glory of the year, bringing us the fruition of months of thought and care and toil. And at no season, safe perhaps in Daffodil time, do we get such superb colour effects as from August to November.~ Rose G. Kingsley
- I saw old Autumn in the misty morn stand shadowless like silence, listening to silence.~ Thomas Hood
- It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.~ B. C. Forbes
- It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.~ P. D. James
- No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.~ Samuel Johnson
- Now Autumn’s fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.~ William Allingham
- 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
- 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
- Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.~ Walter Scott
- We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.~ Zhuangzi
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- A fat wife is like a blanket in winter.~ Pakistani Proverb
- After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.~ Samuel Rutherford
- A man without a wife is like a man in winter without a fur cap.~ Russian Proverb
- An old man in love is like a flower in winter.~ Portuguese Proverb
- Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.~ Elizabeth Bowen
- A woman’s beauty cannot warm a winter’s night.~ Ukranian Proverb
- Every mile is two in winter.~ George Herbert
- France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.~ Mark Twain
- God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.~ Heraclitus
- He that is surprised with the first frost feels it all the winter after.~ George Herbert
- He that would be healthy must wear his winter clothes in summer.~ Spanish Proverb
- If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.~ Anne Bradstreet
- In the depth of winter I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.~ Albert Camus
- In the kingdom of hope, there is no winter.~ Russian Proverb
- It is never winter in the land of hope.~ Russian Proverb
- Just because men do not like the cold, Heaven will not stop the winter.~ Chinese Proverb
- Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.~ Victor Hugo
- No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.~ Guinean Proverb
- No winter lasts forever; no spring skips it’s turn.~ Hal Borland
- O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
- One kind word can warm 3 winter months.~ Japanese Proverb
- 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.~ Wu-Men
- Spring succeeds to winter. ~ Latin Proverb
- The bee, from her industry in the summer, eats honey all the winter.~ Belgian Proverb
- The fire is winter’s fruit.~ Arabian Proverb
- There is no winter without snow, no spring without sunshine, and no happiness without companions.~ Korean Proverb
- They who sing through the summer must dance in the winter. ~ Italian Proverb
- True friendship does not freeze in the winter.~ German Proverb
- What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.~Crowfoot
- When the summer is winter, and the winter is summer, it is a sorry year. ~ Spanish Proverb
- Whoever feeds the wolf in the winter will be eaten by him in the spring.~ Greek Proverb
- Winter either bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail.~ Montenegro Proverb
- Winter finds out what summer lays up.~ Montenegro Proverb
- Winter will ask you what you did during the summer.~ Romanian Proverb
- Words that come from the heart stay warm three winters long.~ Chinese Proverb
- You can do nothing about governments and winter.~ Slovenian Proverb
- You have summer and you have winter — why, then, be in a hurry?~ Russian Proverb
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- After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. And after every storm, there comes clear, open skies.~ Samuel Rutherford
- A life without love is like a year without summer.~ Swedish Proverb
- But thy eternal summer shall not fade.~ William Shakespeare
- Do what we can, summer will have its flies.~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.~ Heraclitus
- It is not summer until the crickets sing.~ Greek Proverb
- If summer had a mother, she would weep at summer’s passing.~ Lebanese Proverb
- If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.~ St. John Chrysostom
- I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its tone is mellower, its colors are richer, and it is tinged with a little sorrow. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and its content.~ Lin, Yutang
- No matter how much snow falls, it won’t remain there all the way till summer.~ Turkish Proverb
- No year has two summers.~ Russian Proverb
- 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.~ Wu-Men
- Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.~ Henry James
- Tears are the summer showers to the soul.~ Alfred Austin
- Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.~ Hosea Ballou
- The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.~ Author Unknown
- The cuckoo comes in April, and stays the month of May; sings a song at midsummer, and then goes away.~ Traditional Proverb
- The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer.~ Author Unknown
- Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night.~ Mark Twain
- When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.~ Sir John A. MacDonald
- Winter will ask you what you did during the summer.~ Romanian Proverb
- You cannot build a house for last year’s summer.~ Ethiopian Proverb
- You have summer and you have winter — why, then, be in a hurry? ~ Russian Proverb
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