May is the bridge month that takes us from spring to summer, and we have put together a list of all the best short May quotes for your next post. And if you’re looking for short May sayings for Instagram, we also have you covered.
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Short May Quotes
“When the sun is out, and the wind is still, you’re one month on in the middle of May.” – Robert Frost
“And after winter folweth grene May.” – Geoffrey Chaucer
“This sweet and merry month of May, while nature wantons in her prime.” – William Byrd
“There is but one May in the year, and sometimes May is wet and cold.” – Christina Georgina Rossetti
“I curled closer to May, comforted by her warmth.” – Kiera Cass
“The month of May is a pleasant time. There is a welcome before the brightness of the summer.” – Lady Gregory
“Mornings in May, echoed with the call of cuckoos, sunlight glowed through fresh green canopies of trees.” – Meeta Ahluwalia
“Where shall we keep the holiday and duly greet the entering May?” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Welcome! O May! O joyous month and stainless!” – Alfonso X of Castile
“You are as welcome as the flowers in May.” – Charles Macklin
“What potent blood hath modest May.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in midsummer.” – William Shakespeare
“Let all thy joys be as the month of May, and all thy days be as a marriage day.” – Francis Quarles
“ Flowers bud, the sun shines, and new seeds are sewn into the fabric of our lives. May is awesome.” – Jenna Danchuk
“Oh! Gladly do we welcome thee, fair pleasant month of May.” – Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
“At last came the golden month of the wild folk honey-sweet May.” – Samuel Scoville
“May had now set in, but up here among the hills, she was May by curtesy only.” – George MacDonald
“I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers. Of April, May, or June, and July flowers.” – Robert Herrick
“In the month of May, fell many great showers of rain.” – Robin Robbins
“May has decked the world, the lovely meadow gifts of May.” – Annette Wynne
“Yet though it be the chilliest May with least of sun and most of showers, its wind and dew, its night and day, bring up the flowers.” – Christina Georgina Rossetti
“And they looked for April showers in vain, but all through May it did nothing but rain!” – Carolyn Wells
“Queer things happen in the garden in May.” – William Earl Johns
“It is now May. It is the month wherein nature hath her fill of mirth and the senses are filled with delights.” – Nicholas Breton
“What is so sweet and dear as a prosperous morn in May.” – William Watson
“O, the month of May, the merry month of May. So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green!” – Thomas Dekker
“Be a good managing director of your life each day in May.” – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“Bright May afternoons, mango trees in the garden echoed with cuckoo calls.” – Meeta Ahluwalia
“May can be a month of sneezing, itchy eyes, and runny noses.” – Ellen Jackson
“It is the month, the jolly month. It is the jolly month of May.” – Francis Thompson
“There is but one May in the year before the year grows old.” – Christina Georgina Rossetti
“It passed away with sunny May, like all sweet things it passed away, and left me old, and cold, and gray.” – Christina Georgina Rossetti
“In the marvelous month of May, when all the birds were singing, then did I reveal to her my yearning and longing.” – Heinrich Heine
“Oh, it was a merry, gladsome day when the April Fool met the Queen of May. She had roguish eyes and golden hair, and they were a mischief-making pair.” – Carolyn Wells
“First night of May and the soft-silvered moon frightens her semicircle in the blue.” – David Gray
“Along with the greening of May came the rain.” – Victoria Abbott Riccardi
“The month of May comes differently in cities.” – Heidi Thomas
“Yes, May is come, and its sweet breath shall well-nigh make you weep today.” – William Morris
“Oh it was sweet to think that May should be ours again.” – Paul Laurence Dunbar
“Sweet May hath come to love us, flowers, trees, their blossoms don.” – Heinrich Heine
“The month of May has come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom.” – Thomas Malory
“Month of May, everybody’s in love.” – Win Butler
“Among the changing months, May stands confest the sweetest.” – James Thomson
“Therefore all ye that be lovers call unto your remembrance the month of May.” – Le Morte d’Arthur
“The star that led the dawn, blithe flora from her couch upstarts, for May is on the lawn.” – William Wordsworth
“The last days of May are among the longest of the year.” – Alice Munro
“I thought that spring must last forevermore. For I was young and loved, and it was May.” – Vera Brittain
“In the month of May, I feel I can start again. Life is feeling new.” – Mychal Simka
“The flowers that should bloom in the month of May, every one of them came on an April day!” – Carolyn Wells
“We chased the bees and plucked the flowers in the merry, merry month of May.” – Stephen Foster
“May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive.” – Fennel Hudson
“I’m only wishing to go a-fishing. For this, the month of May was made.” – Henry van Dyke
“Another May, new buds and flowers shall bring. Ah! Why has happiness no second spring?” – Charlotte Smith
“May and June, soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year.” – H. Peter Loewer
“when nature swells the darling buds of May, my spirit craves three things: poetry, painting, and love.” – Joan Smith
“Yes, it is May!” – Bayard Taylor
“It was the month of May, the month when the foliage of herbs and trees is most freshly.” – Thomas Malory
“When April steps aside for May.” – Lucy Larcom
“By May, most of the harshness of winter has passed.” – Ellen Jackson
“pensive with swift-coming death, shall ye be satiate of the May.”
“May has come in, young May the beautiful, weaving the sweetest chaplet of the year.” – Thomas Buchanan Read
“The month which we’ve eager longed to see through many a wintry day.” – Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
“And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, delicate-filmed as new-spun silk.” – Thomas Hardy
“May: the lilacs are in bloom. Forget yourself.” – Marty Rubin
“Ah! My heart is weary, waiting, waiting for the May.” – Denis Florence MacCarthy
“End of May and now you’re gone, and there’s still bills to pay.” – Timothy Paul Seely
“Beneath the apple blossoms, I go a wintry way, for love that smiled in April is false to me in May.” – Sara Teasdale
“The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.” – Edwin Way Teale
“May, it’s full of all the things that make spring and the brighter part of the year so special.” – Jenna Danchuk
“Rose of May, the sun that you are waiting for spring has come!” – Irene Doura-Kavadia
“Hebe’s here, May is here! The air is fresh and sunny, and the miser-bees are busy hoarding golden honey.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“Winds of May that dance on the sea, dancing a ring-around in glee.” – James Joyce
“In the marvelous month of May, when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise.” – Heinrich Heine
“A great difference between ‘May’ and ‘Day’ is the ‘M’ and ‘D!’.” – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“You have to remember to be thankful. But in May, one simply can’t help being thankful that they are alive, if for nothing else.” – Lucy Maud Montgomery
“May then is the month, if not of fulfilment, at least of promise.” – John Henry Newman
“Lines of baled hay / Yellowing in the sunshine / Dry May day.” – Mike Garofalo
“The flowry May, who from her green lap, throws the yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.” – John Milton
“Make hay in May, for you may never know what June is coming with” – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“Fair flowers are springing beneath thy genial ray, and thousand happy birds are singing, all welcome to thee, May!” – Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
“Nor wants the dim-lit cave a wreath to honor thee, sweet May!” – William Wordsworth
“In the deepening spring of May, I had no choice but to recognize the trembling of my heart.” – Haruki Murakami
“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, and summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” – William Shakespeare
“And a bird overhead sang follow, and a bird to the right sang here. And the arch of the leaves was hollow, and the meaning of May was clear.” – Algernon Charles Swinburne
“‘Tis a month before the month of May, and the spring comes slowly up this way.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course, nor June.” – Karen Joy Fowler
“Marry in the month of May, and you’ll surely rue the day.” – New Zealand Proverb
“Warm, wild, rainy wind, blowing fitfully, stirring dreamy breakers on the slumberous May sea.” – Celia Thaxter
“It’s May, the lusty month of May, that darling month when everyone throws self-control away.” – Alan Jay Lerner
“May! Queen of blossoms, and fulfilling flowers, with what pretty music shall we charm the hours?” – Baron Thurlow
“Oh! Fragrant is the breath of May in tranquil garden closes, and soft yet regal is her sway among the springtide roses.” – William Hamilton Hayne
“May is green and pink and red.” – Richard L. Ratliff
“May means long walks in the evenings.” – Sophie Morris
“As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made.” – Richard Barnfield
“I’ve got sunshine on a cloudy day. When it’s cold outside, I’ve got the month of May.” – Smokey Robinson
“It was outdoor detail, and May is one fine month to be working outdoors.” – Stephen King
“That I may reach that happy time the kindly gods I pray, for are not ducks and pease in prime upon the last of May?” – William Makepeace Thackeray
“May is the most beautiful month of the year, a month alive with warm color.” – Lillian Berliner
Hail bounteous May that dost inspire mirth and youth and warm desire.” – John Milton
“Ah! My heart is weary waiting, waiting for the May , waiting for the pleasant rambles where the fragrant hawthorn brambles.” – Denis Florence MacCarthy
“Was in the merry month of May when flowers were a bloomin’.” – Old English Ballad
“It came to pass upon a bright and sunny day when May was young.” – Christina Georgina Rossetti
“When April steps aside for May, like diamonds, all the raindrops glisten, fresh violets open every day to some new bird, each hour we listen.” – Lucy Larcom
“When joys like these salute the sense, then waiting long hath recompense, and all the world is glad with May.” – John Burroughs
If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Let Yourself Bloom Quotes, May Captions, Memorial Day Sayings, Inspirational Spring Quotes and Spring Flowers Quotes.
Short May Sayings
Keep calm and welcome May.
Hello May! Be good to me!
Please be good to me, May
Happy May and hello spring!
Welcoming May one day at a time
Welcome May! Nice to see you!
Hey May! Show me your colours!
Happy May, everyone.
Keep Calm And Hello May!
Happy May! Spring is here!
Hello May! Bring love & happiness in our lives.
Hello May. Please Be Awesome!
May: Let Spring Begin
Welcome May: now go do what you do best
Happy to be welcoming May
Welcome May. I’m ready for spring!
Well, hello there May
Hello, flowers. Hello, sun. Hello, May!
May you have a magnificent May and stupendous spring!
Goodbye April, Hello May.
Bye April, thanks for the memories. Hi May, I look forward to making new ones
New month, a new beginning, new mindset, new focus, new start, new intentions, new results.
Welcome to the first day of May
Happy May! May the warm days ahead fill you with joy!
April showers brought all the May flowers
Happy May!
Use these May captions for your next May post.
Spring has sprung!
Hello, May!
Welcome May!
Happy May – spring has sprung
Hello May to everyone
Happy May: May you see flowers all around you
Hello, May! Surprise me.
May…Chapter 5
Welcoming the month of May
I love that I live in a world where there are Mays
So that is it for our list of Short May Quotes and Sayings. We hope you found the perfect one!
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Laynni Locke
I am Laynni Locke, a Canadian writer, reader and traveller with a passion for sharing life’s moments on social media. Keeping friends and family in the loop of our lives though photos and videos has become an essential activity for most.
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