May, for some people, doesn’t only mean the month of May. May can also be a word that represents people’s wishes and dreams. These quotes we have compiled gives May different kinds of meanings but regardless of what May means to you, you’ll definitely love all of them. May you enjoy these quotes to get the best out of the month of May!
May Quotes
1. I’m only wishing to go a fishing, for this the month of May was made. – Henry Van Dyke
2. You are as welcome as the flowers in May. – Charles Macklin
3. Tis a month before the month of May, and the spring comes slowly up this way. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
4. In the marvelous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvelous month of May when all the birds were singing, then did I reveal to her my yearning and longing. – Heinrich Heine
5. May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive. – Fennel Hudson
6. Another May new buds and flowers shall bring. Ah. Why has happiness no second spring? – Charlotte Smith
7. Among the changing months, May stands confest the sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed. – James Thomson
8. Let all thy joys be as the month of May, and all thy days be as a marriage day. – Francis Quarles
9. The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit. – Thomas Malory
10. The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May. – Edwin Way Teale
11. I thought that spring must last forevermore, for I was young and loved, and it was May. – Vera Brittain
12. A great difference between May and Day is the M and D. Be a good Managing Director of your life each day in May. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
13. As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in midsummer. – William Shakespeare
14. May, the lilacs are in bloom. Forget yourself. – Marty Rubin
15. The month of May is the pleasant time, its face is beautiful, the blackbird sings his full song, the living wood is his holding, the cuckoos are singing and ever singing, there is a welcome before the brightness of the summer. – Lady Gregory
16. Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. – Paramahansa Yogananda
17. Do not wait, the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. – George Herbert
18. Never give up, and be confident in what you do. There may be tough times, but the difficulties which you face will make you more determined to achieve your objectives and to win against all the odds. – Marta
19. Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. – Helen Keller
20. Sweet April showers do spring May flowers. – Thomas Tusser
21. I’ve learned that fear limits you and your vision. It serves as blinders to what may be just a few steps down the road for you. The journey is valuable, but believing in your talents, your abilities, and your self-worth can empower you to walk down an even brighter path. Transforming fear into freedom, how great is that? – Soledad O’Brien
22. The path from dreams to success does exist. May you have the vision to find it, the courage to get on to it, and the perseverance to follow it. – Kalpana Chawla
23. Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us, loneliness is one of them. – Laurie Graham
24. The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. – Winston Churchill
25. Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
26. Sometimes we may ask God for success, and He gives us physical and mental stamina. We might plead for prosperity, and we receive enlarged perspective and increased patience, or we petition for growth and are blessed with the gift of grace. He may bestow upon us conviction and confidence as we strive to achieve worthy goals. – David A. Bednar
27. Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. – John Quincy Adams
28. Becoming a father increases your capacity for love and your level of patience. It opens up another door in a person, a door which you may not even have known was there. That’s what I feel with my son. There’s suddenly another level of love that expands. My son is my greatest joy, out of everything in my life. – Kyle MacLachlan
29. A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. – B. F. Skinner
30. Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. – John Muir
31. By three methods we may learn wisdom. First, by reflection, which is noblest, second, by imitation, which is easiest, and third by experience, which is the bitterest. – Confucius
32. We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated. – Maya Angelou
33. You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own. – Michelle Obama
34. No matter what you’re going through, there’s a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you’ll find the positive side of things. – Demi Lovato
35. If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. – George Washington
36. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. – Calvin Coolidge
37. The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God, if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think. – Maya Angelou
38. Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together. – Linda Thompson
39. But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven, for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. – Jesus Christ
40. One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen. – Philip Wylie
41. The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime. – Babe Ruth
42. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality, nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit. – Christopher McCandless
43. If someone says something hurtful to you or makes you feel down on yourself, then you just gotta stay positive and keep moving forward because they might not know much about you, or they may not understand the situation. – Jazz Jennings
44. A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success. – Elbert Hubbard
45. Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it’s there if you look deep. – Taraji P. Henson
46. Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today? – Mary Manin Morrissey
47. The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
48. We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills, we shall never surrender. – Winston Churchill
49. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. – Albert Camus
50. Sometimes, things may not go your way, but the effort should be there every single night. – Michael Jordan
51. You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. – Maya Angelou
52. Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same. – Jenna Dewan
53. When you love someone, truly love them, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to no one else, and you let them inside a part of you that only they can hurt, you literally hand them the razor with a map of where to cut deepest and most painfully on your heart and soul. And when they do strike, it’s crippling, like having your heart carved out. – Sherrilyn Kenyon
54. P.S. May, don’t these strawberry tarts just make you want to cry? – Kiera Cass
55. Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness. – Karen Joy Fowler
56. That we may not fall short of desire, but let us give way to the unspoken passion hidden in the closet of our discretion. – Erik Pevernagie
57. In the deepening spring of May, I had no choice but to recognize the trembling of my heart. It usually happened as the sun was going down. In the pale evening gloom, when the soft fragrance of magnolias hung in the air, my heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my teeth, and wait for it to pass. And it would pass, but slowly, taking its own time, and leaving a dull ache behind. – Haruki Murakami
58. At last came the golden month of the wild folk, honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the flowers come out, and the air is full of the sunrise scents and songs of the dawning year. – Samuel Scoville Jr.
59. May is green and pink and red. – Richard L. Ratliff
60. But the outsider in May, the one from Briery Swamp who had never fit quite right, kept her tucked safely in her nook. – Jodi Lynn Anderson
61. It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it, he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that it wasn’t genius, but something far more common. Whatever it was, it simmered to some purpose, for he grew more and more discontented with his desultory life, began to long for some real and earnest work to go at, soul and body, and finally came to the wise conclusion that everyone who loved music was not a composer. – Louisa May Alcott
62. I want to lengthen, not shorten, my attention span, and most of the material splendors of the twenty-first century bully me in the opposite direction. The fault is mine, I’ll admit. I’m too slow-witted, reluctant to evolve, constitutionally unable to get with the program. I can’t afford the newest gadgets and I’m not a natural multitasker. – Phillip Connors
63. May the clouds give your shapes inspiration. – Anthony T. Hincks
64. May the sun ignite a thousand fires in your heart to give you the strength for the day ahead. – Anthony T. Hincks
65. But you said you love me. You don’t just leave after that. – Ava Dellaira
66. When placing an emergency call, it is important to remember that a corrupt or incompetent cop may be on their way to you. – Steven Magee
67. I loved rhubarb, that hardy, underappreciated garden survivor that leafed out just as the worst of winter melted away. Not everyone was a fan, especially of the bitter, mushy, overcooked version. Yet sometimes a little bitterness could bring out the best in other flavors. Bitter rhubarb made sunny day strawberry face the realities of life, and taste all the better for it. As I brushed the cakes with a deep pink glaze made from sweet strawberry and bottled rhubarb bitters, I hoped I would change rhubarb doubters. Certainly, the little Bundt cakes looked as irresistible as anything I had ever seen in a French patisserie. – Judith Fertig
68. Make hay in May for you may never know what June is coming with and you may never know what July will present. When you see May, make hay. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
69. Avoid any exercises that may produce injuries. – Steven Magee
70. The standard business model for corporations is to lie, confuse and deny anything that may threaten their profitability. – Steven Magee
71. Rain may cleanse the Earth, but it doesn’t wash away our tears. – Anthony T. Hincks
72. We may claim to believe in God, but we don’t want to believe so much that it makes us different. – Craig Groeschel
73. Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action. – Craig Groeschel
74. In the suburbs of Delaware, spring meant not young love and damp flowers but an ugly divorce from winter and a second marriage to buxom summer. – Andrew Sean Greer
75. Regarding solar power systems, the bigger the system is, the more likely it may go on fire. – Steven Magee
76. May, I love you with everything I am. For so long, I just wanted to be like you. But I had to figure out that I am someone too, and now I can carry you, your heart with mine, everywhere I go. – Ava Dellaira
77. I curled closer to May, comforted by her warmth. – Kiera Cass
78. And a bird overhead sang follow, and a bird to the right sang here. And the arch of the leaves was hollow, and the meaning of May was clear. – Algernon Charles Swinburne
79. A lost road will remember your footsteps because someday you may want to return, tracing the way. – Munia Khan
80. Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild goose chase, and is never attained. – Nathaniel Hawthorne
81. Ah, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring into life. So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May. – Marcel Proust
82. It is through your experience you find out who you really are and who you are is from finding your own experience who really defines you. – Charleston Parker
83. The wind is tossing the lilacs. The new leaves laugh in the sun, and the petals fall on the orchard wall. But for me the spring is done. Beneath the apple blossoms I go a wintry way. For love that smiled in April is false to me in May. – Sara Teasdale
84. A swarm of bees in May is worth a load of hay. A swarm of bees in June is worth a silver spoon. A swarm of bees in July is not worth a fly. – Rhyme from England
85. May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year, cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights. The discussion of philosophy is over, it’s time for work to begin. – Peter Loewer
86. Be like a flower and turn your face to the sun. – Kahlil Gibran
87. What potent blood hath modest May. – Ralph W. Emerson
88. Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie. – George Herbert
89. Spring rain leaking through the roof, dripping from the wasps’ nest. – Matsuo Basho
90. Don’t knock the weather, nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while. – Kin Hubbard
91. By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course. – Henry Mitchell
92. If it’s drama that you sigh for, plant a garden and you’ll get it. You will know the thrill of battle fighting foes that will beset it. If you long for entertainment and for pageantry most glowing, plant a garden and this summer spend your time with green things growing. – Edward A. Guest
93. Cottonwood fluff stuck to dry weeds, silent wind chimes. – Michael Garofalo
94. The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, you’re one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, and wind comes off a frozen peak, and you’re two months back in the middle of March. – Robert Frost
95. O day after day we can’t help growing older. Year after year spring can’t help seeming younger. Come let’s enjoy our winecup today, nor pity the flowers fallen. – Wang Wei
96. But I must gather knots of flowers, and buds and garlands gay, for I’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I’m to be Queen o’ the May. – Alfred Lord Tennyson
97. May is a pious fraud of the almanac. – James R. Lowell
98. What is now the foliage moving? Air is still, and hush’d the breeze. Sultriness, this fullness loving, through the thicket, from the trees. Now the eye at once gleams brightly, see. The infant band with mirth moves and dances nimbly, lightly, as the morning gave it birth, flutt’ring two and two o’er earth. – Wolfgang Goethe
99. There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring. – William Browne
100. What is so sweet and dear as a prosperous morn in May, the confident prime of the day, and the dauntless youth of the year. When nothing that asks for bliss, asking aright, is denied, and half of the world a bridegroom is, and half of the world a bride? – William Watson
101. Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat. – Laura Ingalls Wilder
102. If we had no winter the spring would not be so pleasant. – Anne Bradstreet
103. Every flower must grow through dirt. – Laurie Jean Sennott
104. I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists. – John Geddes
105. You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. – Pablo Neruda
106. That is one good thing about this world, there are always sure to be more springs. – L.M. Montgomery
107. Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be. – Joel Osteen
108. Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes. – Carl Friedrich Gauss
109. It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done. – Matthew Arnold
110. Every new beginning comes from other beginning’s end. – Seneca
111. Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. – Elizabeth Bowen
112. From the end spring new beginnings. – Pliny the Elder
113. Is the spring coming? He said. What is it like? It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
114. O May, sweet-voice one, going this before, forever June may pour her warm red wine of life and passions, sweeter days are thine. – Helen Hunt Jackson
115. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer’s lease hath all too short a date. – William Shakespeare