Autumn Quotes and Sayings about Fall Season
May the air be crisp, may the leaves be few, may the season of autumn bring great bounty to you!
A breath, whence no man knows, Swaying the grating weeds, it blows; It comes, it grieves, it goes. Once it rocked the summer rose.
– John Vance Cheney
Falling leaves hide the path so quietly.
– John Bailey
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 Holmes
Autumn, the year’s last, loveliest smile.
– William Cullen Bryant
The Autumn is old; The sere leaves are flying; He hath gather’d up gold, And now he is dying… Old age, begin sighing!
– Thomas Hood
Autumn wins you best by this, its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.
The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.
– Henry Beston
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
It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.
– P. D. James
I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence.
– Thomas Hood
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
– Elizabeth Bowen
Autumn’s the mellow time.
– William Allingham
The year’s in wane; There is nothing adorning; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold winter gives warning!
– Thomas Hood
The spring, the summer, the chill autumn, angry winter, change their wonted liveries.