May Day Quotes

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  • It was a perfectly normal May Day, but Sophie was scared of that too. And when a young man in a fantastical blue-and-silver costume spotted Sophie and decided to accost her as well, Sophie shrank into a shop doorway and tried to hide. The young man looked at her in surprise. "It's all right, you little gray mouse," he said laughing rather pityingly. "I only want to buy you a drink. Don't look so scared.

  • There is no substitute for hard work.

  • Also known as May Eve, May Day, and Walpurgis Night, happens at the beginning of May. It celebrates the height of Spring and the flowering of life. The Goddess manifests as the May Queen and Flora. The God emerges as the May King and Jack in the Green. The danced Maypole represents Their unity, with the pole itself being the God and the ribbons that encompass it, the Goddess. Colors are the Rainbow spectrum. Beltane is a festival of flowers, fertility, sensuality, and delight.

    Kings   Queens   Spring  
  • Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor.

    Faith   Work   Labor Day  
    "The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci".
  • I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, or June, and July flowers. I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes, Of bridegrooms, brides, and of the bridal cakes.

    Spring   Flower   June  
    Robert Herrick, John Donne (1948). “The Love Poems of Robert Herrick and John Donne”
  • Build this day on a foundation of pleasant thoughts. Never fret at any imperfections that you fear may impede your progress. Remind yourself, as often as necessary, that you are a creature of God and have the power to achieve any dream by lifting up your thoughts. You can fly when you decide that you can. Never consider yourself defeated again. Let the vision in your heart be in your life's blueprint. Smile!

    Og Mandino (2010). “A Better Way to Live: Og Mandino's Own Personal Story of Success Featuring 17 Rules to Live By”, p.68, Bantam
  • Hoe while it is spring, and enjoy the best anticipations. It is not much matter if things do not turn out well.

    Spring   Hoe   Matter  
    Charles Dudley Warner (1870). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.20
  • Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don; And through the blue heavens above us The very clouds move on.

    Sweet   Flower   Moving  
    Heinrich Heine (1866). “The Poems of Heine: Complete”, p.182
  • All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

    Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”
  • Eleanor [Marx] was involved in the 1889 Paris congress resolution that established May Day as an annual demonstration of the international solidarity of labour in the demand for a legal eight-hour day.

    Eight   Paris   Demand  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • May the strength of God pilot us, may the wisdom of God instruct us, may the hand of God protect us, may the word of God direct us. Be always ours this day and for evermore.

    Hands   May   Pilots  
  • Now the bright morning-star, Day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the East, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire! Woods and groves are of thy dressing; Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.

    Song   Morning   Stars  
    John Milton (1859). “The poems of John Milton”, p.43
  • Come, I come! ye have called me long, I come o'er the mountain with light and song: Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth, By the winds which tell of the violet's birth, By the primrose-stars in the shadowy grass, By the green leaves, opening as I pass.

    Song   Stars   Spring  
    Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1853). “Poetical Works”, p.125
  • When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in meadow-grass the phlox His torch of purple fire: And when the punctual May arrives, With cowslip-garland on her brow, We know what once she gave our lives, And cannot give us now!

    Fire   Land   Purple  
    Bayard Taylor (1883). “The Poetical Works of Bayard Taylor”
  • The goal of the first International May Day celebrations was the eight-hour working day.

    Eight   Goal   May  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life.

    Life   Work   Labor Day  
  • May, queen of blossoms, And fulfilling flowers, With what pretty music Shall we charm the hours? Wilt thou have pipe and reed, Blown in the open mead? Or to the lute give heed In the green bowers.

    Queens   Flower   Giving  
    Edward Thurlow, “May”
  • Honest to God, so International Women's Day, just like May Day and just like Earth Day, all have roots to Marxism and the Bolsheviks and the Soviets.

    Roots   Earth Day   May  
    Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com
  • Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

    Men   Race   Labor Day  
  • Howl said to Sophie, "I've been wondering all along if you would turn out to be that lovely girl I met on May Day. Why were you scared then?

    Girl   Lovely   Sophie  
  • Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

    Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.13
  • You've got to stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • For the May Day is the great day, Sung along the old straight track. And those who ancient lines did ley Will heed this song that calls them back... Pass the cup, and pass the Lady, And pass the plate to all who hunger, Pass the wit of ancient wisdom, Pass the cup of crimson wonder.

    Song   Track   Great Day  
  • In the U.S., ironically, people work longer hours in the U.S. than they do in Europe or in any other industrialized country. They seem utterly oblivious to May Day, don't really know what it is - our own history.

    Country   Europe   People  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • The tendency of taxation is, to create a class of persons, who do not labour: to take from those who do labour the produce of that labour, and to give it to those who do not labour.

    Class   Giving   Liberty  
    "Paper Against Gold and Glory Against Prosperity. Or, an Account of the Rise, Progress, Extent and Present State of the Funds and of the Papermoney of Great-Britain Etc".
  • The fruits of all our labors have left us as we started. To grow without is not to grow within.

  • It is labour indeed that puts the difference on everything.

    John Locke (1821). “Two Treatises on Government”, p.221
  • Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.

    "The works of Henry Van Dyke".
  • Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting.

    Garden   Delight   May  
    Charles Dudley Warner (1870). “My Summer in a Garden”, p.19
  • O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!

    Sweet   Passion   Wine  
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