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Familiar Quotations

Autumns

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.–Elizabeth Bowen

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.–John Cheever

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

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.–Julius Charles Hare

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.–Aldous Huxley

This sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.–Martin Luther King, Jr.

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 Kuan

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.–John Muir

Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves that have fallen in autumn? But the wise man avenges by building his city in snow.–Wallace Stevens

Use in Literature

Autumns

The Stellwagen rolled on through the autumn mud, and that was one chance lost.–Louise de la Ramée (Ouida) in Findelkind.

It was yet deep autumn on the Pennsylvania hills, and the forest was glowing with scarlet and gold.–Joseph A. Altsheler in The Scouts of the Valley.

• Preface vii
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Autumns 1
• Use in Literature 2
• Autumns 2
• Autumns – "Air" 11
• Autumns – "Arrival" 12
• Autumns – "Beautiful" 13
• Autumns – "Beginning" 14
• Autumns – "Best" 15
• Autumns – "Birds" 15
• Autumns – "Books" 15
• Autumns – "Bright" 16
• Autumns – "Called" 17
• Autumns – "Case" 18
• Autumns – "Child" 18
• Autumns – "Chill" 18
• Autumns – "Clear" 19
• Autumns – "Cold" 19
• Autumns – "Came" 20
• Autumns – "Country" 25
• Autumns – "Crisp" 25
• Autumns – "Dark" 26
• Autumns – "Days" 27
• Autumns – "Done" 32
• Autumns – "Dry" 32
• Autumns – "Early" 33
• Autumns – "Ends" 36
• Autumns – "Evening" 36
• Autumns – "Eyes" 38
• Autumns – "Fall" 38
• Autumns – "Farther" 39
• Autumns – "Father" 40
• Autumns – "Feeling" 41
• Autumns – "Felt" 41
• Autumns – "Few" 42
• Autumns – "Field" 43
• Autumns – "Fire" 43
• Autumns – "Foliage" 44
• Autumns – "Following" 44
• Autumns – "Found" 46
• Autumns – "Go" 47
• Autumns – "Gone" 48
• Autumns – "Grass" 49
• Autumns – "Great" 50
• Autumns – "Green" 51
• Autumns – "Grow" 52
• Autumns – "Hand" 53
• Autumns – "Harvest" 54
• Autumns – "Heard" 54
• Autumns – "Hoped" 55
• Autumns – "Hot" 55
• Autumns – "House" 56
• Autumns – "Kept" 56
• Autumns – "Land" 57
• Autumns – "Landscape" 57
• Autumns – "Large" 58
• Autumns – "Late" 59
• Autumns – "Leaves" 60
• Autumns – "Life" 64
• Autumns – "Little" 65
• Autumns – "Lived" 67
• Autumns – "Looked" 67
• Autumns – "Loveliness" 68
• Autumns – "Make" 69
• Autumns – "Men" 71
• Autumns – "Meeting" 72
• Autumns – "Mild" 73
• Autumns – "Months" 73
• Autumns – "Morning" 74
• Autumns – "Mother" 75
• Autumns – "Mount" 76
• Autumns – "Nature" 76
• Autumns – "New" 77
• Autumns – "Nights" 77
• Autumns – "Nothing" 79
• Autumns – "Old" 79
• Autumns – "Once" 81
• Autumns – "Open" 81
• Autumns – "Parties" 82
• Autumns – "Passing" 83
• Autumns – "People" 84
• Autumns – "Placed" 84
• Autumns – "Plants" 85
• Autumns – "Rains" 86
• Autumns – "Reader" 87
• Autumns – "Remember" 88
• Autumns – "Return" 88
• Autumns – "Rose" 90
• Autumns – "Running" 90
• Autumns – "Seasons" 90
• Autumns – "Sent" 92
• Autumns – "Shall" 93
• Autumns – "Silent" 93
• Autumns – "Skies" 94
• Autumns – "Soft" 95
• Autumns – "Soon" 95
• Autumns – "Spring" 96
• Autumns – "Sun" 99
• Autumns – "Sunshine" 101
• Autumns – "Things" 101
• Autumns – "Think" 102
• Autumns – "Thus" 103
• Autumns – "Touch" 104
• Autumns – "Trees" 104
• Autumns – "Visited" 105
• Autumns – "Waits" 106
• Autumns – "Walked" 107
• Autumns – "Warm" 108
• Autumns – "Weather" 108
• Autumns – "Week" 109
• Autumns – "White" 110
• Autumns – "Wind" 110
• Autumns – "Winter" 111
• Autumns – "Woods" 113
• Autumns – "Work" 114
• Autumns – "Years" 115
• Autumns – "Young" 119
• Nonfiction Usage 121
• Governmental Usage 121
• Bibliographic Usage 121
• Encyclopedic Usage 124
• Lexicographic Usage 214
• Index 253