Quotations About / On: JUNE

  • 21.
    O months of blossoming, months of transfigurations,
    May without cloud and June stabbed to the heart,
    I shall not ever forget the lilacs or the roses
    Nor those the spring has kept folded away apart.
    (Louis Aragon (1897-1982), French poet. Les Lilas et les Roses (trans. by Louis MacNeice), Le Crève-Coeur (1940).)
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  • 22.
    I know, you have forgotten those June nights on the Riviera, where we sat 'neath the shimmering skies, moonlight bathing in the Mediterranean! We were young, gay, reckless! The night I drank champagne from your slipper—two quarts. It would have held more, but you were wearing inner soles!
    (Irving Brecher, U.S. screenwriter, and Edward Buzzell. J. Cheever Loophole (Groucho Marx), At the Circus, a wisecrack made in the midst of seducing Mrs. Dukesbury (Margaret Dumont) (1939).)
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  • 23.
    Ask me no more where Jove bestows,
    When June is past, the fading rose;
    For in your beauty's orient deep
    These flowers, as in their causes, sleep.

    Ask me no more whither do stray
    The golden atoms of the day;
    For in pure love heaven did prepare
    Those powders to enrich your hair.
    (Thomas Carew (1589-1639), British poet. Ask Me No More Where Jove Bestows (l. 1-8). . . Poems of Thomas Carew. Arthur Vincent, ed. (1899; repr. 1972) Books for Libraries Press.)
  • 24.
    O My Luve's like a red, red rose,
    That's newly sprung in June;
    O My Luve's like the melodie
    That's sweetly played in tune.
    (Robert Burns (1759-1796), Scottish poet. A Red, Red Rose (l. 1-4). . . New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 25.
    And what is so rare as a day in June?
    Then, if ever, come perfect days;
    Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune,
    And over it softly her warm ear lays:
    Whether we look, or whether we listen,
    We hear life murmur, or see it glisten;
    (James Russell Lowell (1819-1891), U.S. poet. The Vision of Sir Launfal (l. 73-81). . . Family Book of Best Loved Poems, The. David L. George, ed. (1952) Doubleday & Company.)
  • 26.
    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 [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910), U.S. author. "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar," ch. 13, Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894).)
  • 27.
    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.
    (Unknown. A Swarm of bees in May (l. 1-6). . . Oxford Nursery Rhyme Book, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, comps. (1955) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 28.
    You don't want to be lousy during the World Series. If you've got to be lousy, let it be June. And believe me, I was very lousy yesterday. I had nothing to say, and, by God, I said it.
    (Walter Wellesley (Red) Smith (1905-1982), U.S. author, sports columnist, reporter. "Sportswriting's Poet Laureate," p. 63, Sport (March 1978). Article by Harry Stein.)
  • 29.
    It is obvious that the French Revolution was a vaster and more profound social upheaval, involving more violent conflict between classes, more radical reorganization of government and society, more far-reaching redefinition of marriage, property, and civil law as well as of organs of public authority, more redistribution of wealth and income, more fears on the part of the rich and more demands from the poor, more sensational repercussions in other countries, more crises of counterrevolution, war, and invasion, and more drastic or emergency measures, as in the Reign of Terror. From very early in the French Revolution the American Revo lution came to seem very moderate. Thomas Jefferson, who was then in France, feared that the French were going to dangerous extremes as early as June 1789.
    (R.R. Palmer (b. 1904), U.S. historian, educator. "The Revolution," Comparative Approach to American History, ed. C. Vann Woodward, Basic Books (1968).)
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