Okay, so I know many people out there really love quotes, and since today we’re starting a new month I figured I’d look up some of the best quotes involving October, for your contemplation and enjoyment.

“There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir, We must rise and follow her; When from every hill of flame, She calls and calls each vagabond by name”
William Bliss Carman

“October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book.”
Unknown author?

“You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.”
Whitey Ford quotes

“October’s child is born for woe, And life’s vicissitudes must know; But lay on Opal on her breast, And hope will lull those woes to rest.”
Unattributed Author;October, in “Notes and Queries”, May 11, 1889, p. 371

“October turned by maple’s leaves to gold; The most are gone now; here and there one lingers; Soon these will slip from the twig’s weak hold, Like coins between a dying miser’s fingers.”
Thomas Bailey Aldrich; Maple Leaves

“The sweet calm sunshine of October, now Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mould The purple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough Drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.”
Bear Bryant

“And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, And the year smiles as it draws near its death.”
William Cullen Bryant

“There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame She calls, and calls each vagabond by name.”
William Bliss Carman; Vagabond Song

“Is it the shrewd October wind Brings the tears into her eyes? Does it blow so strong that she must fetch Her breath in sudden sighs?”
William Dean Howells

“October is a fine and dangerous season in America . . . a wonderful time to begin anything at all.”
Thomas Merton; recalled on his death, Dec. 10, 1968

“No clouds are in the morning sky, The vapors hug the stream, Who says that life and love can die In all this northern gleam? At every turn the maples burn, The quail is whistling free, The partridge whirs, and the frosted burs Are dropping for you and me. Ho! hillyho! heigh O! Hillyho! In the clear October morning.”
Edmund C. Stedman; Autumn Song

“And close at hand, the basket stood With nuts from brown October’s wood.”
John Greenleaf Whittier; Snow-Bound

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

“What I really want from music. That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October. That it be individual, frolicsome, tender, a sweet small woman full of beastliness and charm.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings, as now in October”
Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Listen! The wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, We have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!”
Humbert Wolfe