month quotes

Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to bya boy, waiting for rain.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  'Gerontion'.

April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.

-T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
  The Waste Land, pt.1,'The Burial of the Dead'.

As in a month you've got to die If Ko-Ko tells us true, 'Twere empty compliment to cry 'Long life to Nanki-Poo!' But as one month you have to live As fellow-citizen, This toast with three times three we'll give 'Long life to youtill then!'

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
  Pooh-Bah's solo, The Mikado, act1.

March is the month that God designed to show those who don't drink what a hangover is like.

- (Gary Edward) Garrison Keillor
  In NPR broadcast,1 Dec.

Die Zeit hat inWirklichkeit keine Einschnitte, es gibt kein Gewitter oder Drommetenget o« n beim Beginn eines neuen Monats oder Jahres, und selbst bei dem eines neuen S a« kulums sind es nur wir Menschen, die schieÞen und l a« uten. Timehasno divisionstomark its passage, there isnevera thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

-Thomas Mann
  Der Zauberberg (The Magic Mountain), ch.4, section 4 (translated by H  T Lowe-Porter).

This is the month, and this the happy morn Wherein the son of Heaven's eternal King, Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring.

-John Milton
  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity','The Hymn', stanza1.

   Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push and see what can be accomplished in a week.

- Robert Louis Stevenson
Virginibus Puerisque,'AesTriplex'.