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October Sayings – Some Poetic, Some Prophetic

By Eloise Graham

“Just before the death of flowers, and before they are buried in snow, There comes a festival season when nature is all aglow.”

– Unknown

“There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted upon, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October.”

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Rain in October means wind in December.”

– Farmer saying

“When birds and badgers are fat in October, expect a hard winter. When berries are many in October, beware a hard winter.”

– Unknown

“All things on earth point home in October, sailors to the sea, travelers to walls and fences, hunters to the field and the hollow and long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.”

– Thomas Wolfe

“In October dung your fields, and your land its wealth shall yield.”

– Farmer saying

“October is nature’s funeral month. Nature glories in death more than life. The month of departure is more beautiful than the month of coming.”

– October Than May.

“Every green thing loves to die in bright colors.”

– Henry Ward Beecher

“If ducks do slide at Hallowtide, At Christmas they will swim. If ducks do swim at Hallowtide, At Christmas they will slide.”

– Unknown

“Always will there be twenty-nine fine days in October”

-Unknown

“If the October moon comes without frost, expect no frost until the moon of November.”

– Farmer saying

“October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.”

– Mark Twain

“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves.”

– Humbert Wolfe