November Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old november quotes, november sayings, and november proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Talk not of sad November, when a day / Of warm, glad sunshine fills the sky of noon, / And a wind, borrowed from some morn of June, / Stirs the brown grasses and the leafless spray. John Greenleaf Whittier
This sunlight shames November where he grieves / In dead red leaves, and will not let him shun / The day, though bough with bough be over-run. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The world is tired, the year is old, / The faded leaves are glad to die. Sara Teasdale
Apart from the pleasures of gardening, November has beauty of its own. The Saxons called it wind-month, for then the fishermen drew up their boats and abandoned fishing till the spring; it was called the slaughter-month, too, when pigs and cattle were salted down for preservation throughout the winter. Victoria Sackville-West
While November numbly collapses, this beech tree, heavy as death on the lawn, braces for throat-cutting ice, bandaging snow. Edwin Honig
I cannot but remember / When the year grows old— / October—November— / How she disliked the cold! Edna St. Vincent Millay
What we're really talking about is a wonderful day set aside on the fourth Thursday of November when no one diets. I mean, why else would they call it Thanksgiving? Erma Bombeck
It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. L.M. Montgomery
A morning arrives in November, a leafless, birdless, coming of winter morning, when she cannot rouse herself to exclaim: 'Oh my, it's fruitcake weather!' And when that happens, I know it. A message saying so merely confirms a piece of news some secret vein had already received, severing from me an irreplaceable part of myself, letting it loose like a kite on a broken string. Narrator
I can not only see the colors now / I can do everything, everything / I can not only see November Skies / I see you everywhere, everywhere! Tomas Barfod
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down / Of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee / The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead / When the skies of November turn gloomy / With a load of iron ore twenty-six thousand tons more / Than the Edmund Fitzgerald weighed empty / That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed / When the gales of November came early Gordon Lightfoot
Sweetest November, winter wasn't here forever / Time to rest your weary head in the sun / Sweetest November, the world's renewed it's color / Only just in time to welcome the summer Cranny Blasko
The winds of late November droop / (Poor little failures) very low, / As up and down the farm they pass, / Pass up and down, and to and fro, / And look for a home they are not to find, / For they were homeless years ago.. John Crowe Ransom
November days in Ireland / Are just one round of prayer, / Of loving help, and sacrifice, / For those who claim our care. / And Oh! Look up with hope to Heaven: the starry, shining dome, / Is vibrant with the beating wings of glad souls going home. Alice Guerin Crist
No sun - no moon! / No morn - no noon - / No dawn - no dusk - no proper time of day. / No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, / No comfortable feel in any member - / No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, / No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds! - / November! Thomas Hood
Not yesterday I learned to know / The love of bare November days / Before the coming of the snow, / But it were vain to tell her so, / And they are better for her praise Robert Frost
In the sad November time, / When the leaf has left the lime, / And the Cam, with sludge and slime, / Plasters his ugly channel, / While, with sober step and slow, / Round about the marshes low, / Stiffening students stumping go / Shivering through their flannel. James Clerk Maxwell
Thicker than rain-drops on November thorn. Samuel Taylor Coleridge