November is at the door.

The month that can’t quite decide if it’s fall or already winter, when the days grow shorter and shorter and Thanksgiving stress may start to creep up.

So in today’s post I’d like to share 47 of the most hilarious, positive and funny November quotes.

I hope you’ll find something here that’ll give you a few good laughs, reduce some of that holiday stress and help you to make this a happy fall month.

Funny November Quotes That Will Make You Smile

“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.”
– Emily Dickinson

“I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.”
– Robert Brault

“The November evening had a bite; it nibbled not-quite-gently at her cheeks and ears.”
– Aleksandr Wootton

“November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.”
– Louisa May Alcott

“I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October.”
– Henry Rollins

“In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.”
– Martha Gellhorn

“No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, no fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds – November!”
– Thomas Hood

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“November at its best – with a sort of delightful menace in the air.”
– Anne Bosworth Greene

“It was the best kind of November day. Cold and crisp, but not quite freezing, not icy.”
– Rainbow Rowell

“This November there seems to be nothing to say.”
– Anne Sexton

“The house was very quiet, and the fog – we are in November now – pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.”
– E.M. Forster

“Jam on November took away the worries, it was like tasting summer.”
– El Fuego

“When everything looks like a magical oil painting, you know you are in Autumn!”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan

Funny November Quotes for a Happy Thanksgiving

“An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.”
– Irv Kupcinet

“Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother’s tasted better the day before.”
– Rita Rudner

“I like football. I find it’s an exciting strategic game. It’s a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving.”
– Craig Ferguson

“I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching football, making pumpkin pie and saying the magic phrase that sends your aunt storming out of the dining room to sit in her car.”
– Stephen Colbert

“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.”
– Jay McInerney

“Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too much.”
– Johnny Carson

“I come from a family where gravy is considered a beverage.”
– Erma Bombeck

“My cooking is so bad my kids thought Thanksgiving was to commemorate Pearl Harbor.”
– Phyllis Diller

“After a good dinner, one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Thanksgiving is a magical time of year when families across the country join together to raise America’s obesity statistics.”
– Stephen Colbert

“Thanksgiving, man. Not a good day to be my pants.”
– Kevin James

“I’m from Canada, so Thanksgiving to me is just Thursday with more food. And I’m thankful for that.”
– Howie Mandel

“Thanksgiving… that is all about overeating. One of the main dishes is actually called ‘stuffing.’ Stuffing? What names did they turn down? ‘Cram-it-in?’ ‘Eat-till-you-can’t-breathe?’”
– Jim Gaffigan

“A new survey found that 80 percent of men claim they help cook Thanksgiving dinner. Which makes sense, when you hear they consider saying ‘that smells good’ to be helping.”
– Jimmy Fallon

“It took me three weeks to stuff the turkey. I stuffed it through the beak.”
– Phyllis Diller

“Cooking tip: Wrap turkey leftovers in aluminum foil and throw them out.”
– Nicole Hollander

“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.”
– Erma Bombeck

“My mother is such a lousy cook that Thanksgiving at her house is a time of sorrow.”
– Rita Rudner

“Thanksgiving is the meal we aspire for other meals to resemble.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer

“It’s not too much food. This is what we’ve been training for our whole lives. This is our destiny, this is our finest hour.”
– Lorelai Gilmore (from the TV-show The Gilmore Girls)

“You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.”
– Jay Leno

Hilarious November Quotes for a Fun Fall Month

“Some say fall is the season when the leaves change. I say it’s the season when my sweat pants never change.”
– Katie Nicole Felton

“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread and pumpkin pie.”
– Jim Davis

“In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning.”
– Cynthia Rylant

“On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment – halftime.”
– George Will

“Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground.”
– Andrea Gibson

“In autumn, don’t go to jewelers to see gold; go to the parks!”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter’s pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.”
– Dorothy Parker

“The meal isn’t over when I’m full. The meal is over when I hate myself.”
– Louis C.K.

“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

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”
– W.C. Fields

“If you stand in the meat section at the grocery store long enough, you start to get mad at turkeys. There’s turkey ham, turkey bologna, turkey pastrami. Someone needs to tell the turkey, ‘Man, just be yourself.’”
– Mitch Hedberg

“Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.”
– Doug Larson

Want more inspiration and laughs for November and the holiday season? Then check out these inspirational November quotes, the short and uplifting November quotes in this post and also this one with funny Thanksgiving quotes.

November is here. With leaves on the ground and the crisp air turning cold.

Winter is on the horizon. Snow has maybe already fallen once or twice.

It’s a cold and dark time but also one of cozy evenings, fun holiday days and gratitude.

And in today’s post I’d like to share 90 of the most uplifting, beautiful and inspirational November quotes.

Use them in your own life to make this a fun and positive month and share them with the people around you via texts, group chats and social media like Instagram to help them have a good one too.

Inspirational November Quotes to Welcome a Happy Month

“I am most radiant and full of energy when the leaves are falling and there is a ghost of change in the air.”
– Anna Madsen

“Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moon rise.”
– Gladys Taber

“The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.”
– Henry Rollins

“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.”
– Henry Beston

“I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived. And when it was time to leave, gracefully it knew life was a gift.”
– Dodinsky

“The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers.”
– Cynthia Rylant

“There is October in every November and there is November in every December. All seasons melted in each other’s life.”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Peering from some high window, at the gold of November sunset and feeling that if day has to become night, this is a beautiful way.”
– E. E. Cummings

“Fear not November’s challenge bold. We’ve books and friends, and hearths that never can grow cold. These make amends.”
– Alexander L. Fraser

“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
– John Burroughs

“The wind that makes music in November corn is in a hurry. The stalks hum, the loose husks whisk skyward in half-playing swirls, and the wind hurries on… A tree tries to argue, bare limbs waving, but there is no detaining the wind.”
– Aldo Leopold

“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.”
– Stanley Horowitz

“November is the month that reminds us to be thankful. For the big things, for the small things and for making a spring that will come in due time so much sweeter.”
– Rip Miller

“Don’t wait until the fourth Thursday in November, to sit with family and friends to give thanks. Make every day a day of Thanksgiving!”
– Charmaine J. Forde

“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”
– B. C. Forbes

“Be thankful for what you have. Your life is someone else’s fairy tale.”
– Wale Ayeni

“In every change, in every falling leaf, there is some pain, some beauty. And that’s the way new leaves grow.”
– Amit Ray

Short and Uplifting November Quotes

“Welcome sweet November, the season of senses and my favorite month of all.”
– Gregory F. Lenz

“November at its best – with a sort of delightful menace in the air.”
– Anne Bosworth Greene

“There is the November sky, clean of summer dust.”
– Hal Borland

“Autumn is springtime in reverse.”
– Terri Guillemets

“How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring!”
– Edwin Way Teale

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all other seasons.”
– Jim Bishop

“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
– Sarah Addison Allen

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
– Albert Camus

“Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.”
– Cyril Connolly

“Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.”
– Arianna Huffington

“November comes and November goes, with the last red berries and the first white snows.”
– Clyde Watson

“November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.”
– Sir Walter Scott

“November is secret and silent.”
– Allison Uttley

“Oh how wonderfully you have grown since November of last year.”
– Morgan Harper Nichols

“The morns are meeker than they were – The nuts are getting brown – The berry’s cheek is plumper – The rose is out of town.”
– Emily Dickinson

“Spring is brown; summer, green; autumn, yellow; winter, white; November, gray.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Autumn…the year’s last, loveliest smile.”
– William Cullen Bryant

Funny November Quotes for a Less Stressful End of Fall

“You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.”
– Jay Leno

“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.”
– Emily Dickinson

“In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.”
– Martha Gellhorn

“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.”
– Jay McInerney

“Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too much.”
– Johnny Carson

“I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching football, making pumpkin pie and saying the magic phrase that sends your aunt storming out of the dining room to sit in her car.”
– Stephen Colbert

“The November evening had a bite; it nibbled not-quite-gently at her cheeks and ears.”
– Aleksandr Wootton

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.”
– Robert Brault

“Some say fall is the season when the leaves change. I say it’s the season when my sweat pants never change.”
– Katie Nicole Felton

“November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.”
– Louisa May Alcott

“The house was very quiet, and the fog – we are in November now – pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.”
– Edward Morgan Forster

“Food is better in November than any other time of the year.”
– Cynthia Rylant

“This November there seems to be nothing to say.”
– Anne Sexton

“Jam on November took away the worries, It was like tasting summer.”
– El Fuego

“This is going to be a November to remember.”
– Charmaine J. Forde

“Dull November brings the blast, Then the leaves are whirling fast.”
– Sara Coleridge

Beautiful Hello November Quotes for an Aesthetic Autumn

“November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops along the tops of the gray stone walls.”
– Jean Hersey

“In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning.”
– Cynthia Rylant

“It was November – the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep hymns of the sea, passionate wind songs in the pines.”
– L.M. Montgomery

“The river this November afternoon rests in an equipoise of sun and cloud. A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroud. Its passage. All seems tranquil, all in tune.”
– Cecil Day-Lewis

“Long cold nights mark November’s return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.”
– Gladys Taber

“So dull and dark are the November days. The lazy mist high up the evening curled, and now the morn quite hides in the smoke and haze; the place we occupy seems all the world.”
– John Clare

“It was the best kind of November day. Cold and crisp, but not quite freezing, not icy.”
– Rainbow Rowell

“The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills.”
– Ray Bradbury

“November wind has a sound different from any other. It is easy to imagine the cave of the winds in some mythical Northland where the winds are born and the gods send them out to conquer the quiet air.”
– Gladys Taber

“But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.”
– L.M. Montgomery

“November with uncanny witchery in its changed trees. With murky red sunsets flaming in smoky crimson behind the westering hills. With dear days when the austere woods were beautiful and gracious in a dignified serenity of folded hands and closed eyes.”
– L.M. Montgomery

“The wild November comes at last beneath a veil of rain. The night wind blows its folds aside, her face is full of pain. The latest of her race, she takes the Autumn’s vacant throne. She has but one short moon to live and she must live alone.”
– R.H. Stoddard

“It was one of those early November mornings that are as beautiful as any in spring. There was gold everywhere, drifts of it on the elm tree, flakes of gold under our feet, gold dust on the hedges, liquid gold in the refracted falling light.”
– Elizabeth Goudge

“November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.”
– F. Sionil Jose

“When shriek’d the bleak November winds and smote the woods, and the brownfields were herbless, and the shades. That met above the merry rivulet, were spoil’d, I sought, I loved them still, they seem’d like old companions in adversity.”
– William Cullen Bryant

“November. Crows are approaching, wounded leaves fall to the ground.”
– Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

“Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.”
– D. H. Lawrence

“October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds, and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.”
– J.K. Rowling

“In November, the earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures. The bed is white and silent, and much life can hide beneath its blankets.”
– Cynthia Rylant

“That soft autumnal time, the woodland foliage now is gathered by the wild November blast.”
– John Howard Bryant

Motivational November Quotes for Work or School

“Embrace the crisp change of November as an opportunity for renewal and for a fresh start as the winds are howling outside.”
– Elise Green

“Even in the quiet and dark of November, there’s opportunity for progress while others rest or get unmotivated. So keep going.”
– George Saunders

“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.”
– Ralph H. Blum

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”
– Vivian Greene

“Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus. “
– Alexander Graham Bell

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“If I can’t do great things, I can do small things in great ways.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.”
– Hal Borland

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
– Robert Brault

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”
– Nathanial Hawthorne

“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”
– B.C. Forbes

“Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, I shall recall the memory of warm, sunny, late summer afternoons like this one, and be comforted greatly.”
– Peggy Toney Horton

“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.”
– Viggo Mortensen

“To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing.”
– Eva Young

“When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.”
– Kristin Armstrong

“Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.”
– Gary Ryan Blair

“You will never plough a field if you only turn it over in your mind.”
– Irish Proverb

Want more inspiration and motivation for the season? Then check out these short November quotes, the inspirational fall quotes in this post and also this one with funny autumn quotes.

It’s November. The leaves are mostly on the ground now. The crisp and chilly air hints at winter approaching.

The end of fall is a time of transition. Between seasons. Between work and holidays.

Between the beauty of autumn and the bareness and coldness of winter.

So to help you during this month I’d like to share 101 of the most uplifting, funny and inspirational short November quotes.

I hope you’ll find something helpful here for your letter board, Instagram and to make this a happy and inspired month for you.

Short Welcome November Quotes and Sayings for a Beautiful Month

“Welcome sweet November, the season of senses and my favorite month of all.”
– Gregory F. Lenz

“November is secret and silent.”
– Allison Uttley

“The November evening had a bite; it nibbled not-quite-gently at her cheeks and ears.”
– Aleksandr Wootton

“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.”
– Stanley Horowitz

“November at its best – with a sort of delightful menace in the air.”
– Anne Bosworth Greene

“November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear.”
– Sir Walter Scott

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
– Albert Camus

“It was the best kind of November day. Cold and crisp, but not quite freezing, not icy.”
– Rainbow Rowell

“The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moon rise.”
– Gladys Taber

“In November, the trees are standing all sticks and bones. Without their leaves, how lovely they are, spreading their arms like dancers.”
– Cynthia Rylant

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
– Jim Bishop

“Jam on November took away the worries, It was like tasting summer.”
– El Fuego

“November is chill, frosted mornings with a silver sun rising behind the trees, red cardinals at the feeders, and squirrels running scallops along the tops of the gray stone walls.”
– Jean Hersey

“November. Crows are approaching, wounded leaves fall to the ground.”
– Sir Kristian Goldmund Aumann

“Autumn is springtime in reverse.”
– Terri Guillemets

“Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.”
– D. H. Lawrence

“That soft autumnal time, the woodland foliage now is gathered by the wild November blast.”
– John Howard Bryant

“Peering from some high window, at the gold of November sunset and feeling that if day has to become night, this is a beautiful way.”
– E. E. Cummings

“Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go.”
– Unknown

Short and Uplifting November Quotes for Your Letter Board

“Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.”
– Cyril Connolly

“It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”
– B. C. Forbes

“Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see a shadow.”
– Helen Keller

“How beautifully leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
– John Burroughs

“I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky and lived. And when it was time to leave, gracefully it knew life was a gift.”
– Dodinsky

“There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy.”
– Ralph H. Blum

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”
– Vivian Greene

“Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.”
– Hal Borland

“Be thankful for what you have. Your life is someone else’s fairy tale.”
– Wale Ayeni

“Fear not November’s challenge bold. We’ve books and friends, and hearths that never can grow cold. These make amends.”
– Alexander L. Fraser

“Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.”
– Robert Brault

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

“In every change, in every falling leaf, there is some pain, some beauty. And that’s the way new leaves grow.”
– Amit Ray

“Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.”
– Arianna Huffington

“I am most radiant and full of energy when the leaves are falling and there is a ghost of change in the air.”
– Anna Madsen

“How sad would be November if we had no knowledge of the spring!”
– Edwin Way Teale

“Autumn… the year’s last, loveliest smile.”
– William Cullen Bryant

“November is the month that reminds us to be thankful. For the big things, for the small things and for making a spring that will come in due time so much sweeter.”
– Rip Miller

“Don’t wait until the fourth Thursday in November, to sit with family and friends to give thanks. Make every day a day of Thanksgiving!”
– Charmaine J. Forde

Funny and Short November Quotes for a Laugh (and Instagram)

“November always seemed to me the Norway of the year.”
– Emily Dickinson

“I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October.”
– Henry Rollins

“Spring is brown; summer, green; autumn, yellow; winter, white; November, gray.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“You can tell you ate too much for Thanksgiving when you have to let your bathrobe out.”
– Jay Leno

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.”
– Robert Brault

“The capacity for friendship is God’s way of apologizing for our families.”
– Jay McInerney

“Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too much.”
– Johnny Carson

“November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.”
– Louisa May Alcott

“Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.”
– Doug Larson

“I love Thanksgiving traditions: watching football, making pumpkin pie and saying the magic phrase that sends your aunt storming out of the dining room to sit in her car.”
– Stephen Colbert

“In November you begin to know how long the winter will be.”
– Martha Gellhorn

“What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past, like the rich pumpkin pie?”
– John Greenleaf Whittier

“The house was very quiet, and the fog – we are in November now – pressed against the windows like an excluded ghost.”
– Edward Morgan Forster

“Some say fall is the season when the leaves change. I say it’s the season when my sweat pants never change.”
– Katie Nicole Felton

“Let’s pumpkin spice things up a bit.”
– Unknown

“Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address.”
– Nora Ephron

“During the day, I don’t believe in ghosts. At night, I’m a little more open-minded.”
– Unknown

“Sweater weather is always better together.”
– Unknown

“In November, some birds move away and some birds stay. The air is full of good-byes and well-wishes. The birds who are leaving look very serious. No silly spring chirping now.”
– Cynthia Rylant

Short Hello November Quotes for an Inspirational and Aesthetic Fall

“In autumn, change in life becomes as natural as the leaves turning red, yellow and brown.”
– Unknown

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”
– Chad Sugg

“It was November—the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds deep hymns of the sea, passionate wind songs in the pines.”
– L.M Montgomery

“In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning.”
– Cynthia Rylant

“Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.”
– Rumi

“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.”
– Henry Beston

“In November, the earth is growing quiet. It is making its bed, a winter bed for flowers and small creatures. The bed is white and silent, and much life can hide beneath its blankets.”
– Cynthia Rylant

“November with uncanny witchery in its changed trees. With murky red sunsets flaming in smoky crimson behind the westering hills.”
– L.M. Montgomery

“The wild November comes at last beneath a veil of rain. The night wind blows its folds aside, her face is full of pain.”
– R.H. Stoddard

“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.”
– George Eliot

“November woods are bare and still. November days are bright and good. Life’s noon burns up life’s morning chill. Life’s night rests feet which long have stood.”
– Helen Fiske Hunt Jackson

“Have you seen my heart, somewhere in your castle of yellow leaves?”
– A Waltz for Zizi

“When shriek’d the bleak November winds and smote the woods, and the brownfields were herbless, and the shades.”
– William Cullen Bryant

“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”
– Lauren DeStefano

“The river this November afternoon rests in an equipoise of sun and cloud. A glooming light, a gleaming darkness shroud. Its passage. All seems tranquil, all in tune.”
– Cecil Day-Lewis

“Wind warns November’s done with. The blown leaves make bat-shapes, web-winged and furious.”
– Sylvia Plath

“Autumn is marching on. Even the scarecrows are wearing dead leaves.”
– Otsuyu Nakagawa

“November comes, and November goes. With the last red berries and the first white snows.”
– Clyde Watson

“This is the month of nuts and nutty thoughts – that November whose name sounds so bleak and cheerless – perhaps its harvest of thought is worth more than all the other crops of the year.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“November is auspicious in so many parts of the country: the rice harvest is already in, the weather starts to cool, and the festive glow which precedes Christmas has began to brighten the landscape.”
– F. Sionil Jose

Motivational and Short November Quotes for Work

“The month of November makes me feel that life is passing more quickly. In an effort to slow it down, I try to fill the hours more meaningfully.”
– Henry Rollins

“Embrace the crisp change of November as an opportunity for renewal and for a fresh start as the winds are howling outside.”
– Elise Green

“November is a month of transformation and preparation.”
– Catherine Pulsifer

“If I can’t do great things, I can do small things in great ways.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“Even in the quiet and dark of November, there’s opportunity for progress while others rest or get unmotivated. So keep going.”
– George Saunders

“True forgiveness is when you can say, ‘Thank you for the experience.’”
– Oprah Winfrey

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

“Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.”
– Amy Grant

“Even if something is left undone, everyone must take time to sit still and watch the leaves turn.”
– Elizabeth Lawrence

“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”
– Joe L. Wheeler

“When we focus on our gratitude, the tide of disappointment goes out and the tide of love rushes in.”
– Kristin Armstrong

“Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.”
– Dale Carnegie

“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”
– Stephen R. Covey

“Whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul, I shall recall the memory of warm, sunny, late summer afternoons like this one, and be comforted greatly.”
– Peggy Toney Horton

“Let this be the November you always remember. The November you chose to believe there was more to your future than you were able to see.”
– Morgan Harper Nichols

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
– Thomas Edison

“November is tied together with the heartstrings of gratitude.”
– J. A. McIntosh

“Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.”
– Truman Capote

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have you will never, ever have enough.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
– Maya Angelou

“This is going to be a November to remember.”
– Charmaine J. Forde

Want more inspiration for your end of autumn? Then have a look at these inspirational fall quotes, the funny autumn quotes here and also these positive quotes about life.

It’s Wednesday.

The previous weekend feels far away now and you’ve got a few more days until the next one.

Maybe you’re a bit tired or unmotivated. Or perhaps overwhelmed by everyday life.

So in today’s post I’d like to share 101 of the most hilarious, motivational and funny Wednesday quotes.

To help you release a bit of pressure and stress. Give you a couple of good laughs and a jolt of energy.

And help carry you through hump day and towards the weekend.

Funny Wednesday Quotes for Work

“Nothing screws up your Friday more than realizing it’s Wednesday. Wednesdays are like Mondays in the middle of the week!”
– Lee Fox Williams

“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?”
– Edgar Bergen

“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
– Jerome K. Jerome

“By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.”
– Robert Frost

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
– Bertrand Russell

“Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some of it for tomorrow.”
– Don Herold

“I choose a lazy person to do a hard job, because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.”
– Bill Gates

“No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.”
– Groucho Marx

“If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.”
– John Gotti

“Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.”
– Peter Drucker

“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”
– George Carlin

“If hard work is the key to success, most people would rather pick the lock.”
– Claude McDonald

“My keyboard must be broken, I keep hitting the escape key, but I’m still at work.”
– Author Unknown

“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work.”
– Robert Orben

“Sometimes I spend the whole meeting wondering how they got the big meeting table through the door.”
– Unknown

“Executive ability is deciding quickly and getting somebody else to do the work.”
– Earl Nightingale

“A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.”
– Zig Ziglar

“I think Smithers picked me because of my motivational skills. Everyone says they have to work a lot harder when I’m around.”
– Homer Simpson

“The reward for good work is more work.”
– Francesca Elisia

“On Wednesday afternoons I could be practically anything.”
– Kit Williams

“People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.”
– Ogden Nash

“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.”
– Robert Frost

Funny Good Morning Wednesday Quotes

“When people refer to ‘Back in the Day,’ it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.”
– Dane Cook

“Keep calm, it’s hump day Wednesday.”
– Unknown

“Morning will come, it has no choice.”
– Marty Rubin

“Today’s goals: Coffee and kindness. Maybe two coffees, and then kindness.”
– Nanea Hoffman

“A Wednesday with no rain is a dry hump day.”
– Demetri Martin

“Moist groaned. It was the crack of seven and he was allergic to the concept of two seven o’clocks in one day.”
– Terry Pratchett

“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”
– Glen Cook

“If all our national holidays were observed on Wednesdays, we could wind up with nine-day weekends.”
– George Carlin

“There should be a rule against people trying to be funny before the sun comes up.”
– Kristen Chandler

“I hate when I dream of alarm clocks going off.”
– Jarod Kintz

“Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead.”
– James Marsden

“Everyone wants me to be a morning person. I could be one, only if morning began after noon.”
– Tony Smite

“Keep the dream alive: Hit the snooze button.”
– Punit Ghadge

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”
– Dorothy Parker

“I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.”
– David Lynch

“I like coffee because it gives me the illusion that I might be awake.”
– Lewis Black

Hilarious Wednesday Quotes to Get You Through Hump Day

“To some, it’s Hump Day. To us, it’s Wednesday’s getting its ass kicked and Thursday just asking Friday to switch places.”
– Dwayne Johnson

“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.”
– Jack Handey

“When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.”
– John Wyndham

“Every time you feel yourself being pulled into other people’s drama, repeat these words: Not my circus, not my monkeys.”
– Polish Proverb

“A failure is like fertilizer; it stinks to be sure, but it makes things grow faster in the future.”
– Denis Waitley

“Home may be where the heart is but it’s no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.”
– Walker Percy

“When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car.”
– Will Rogers

“The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.”
– Tom Clancy

“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.”
– Ethel Barrymore

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
– Groucho Marx

“When I hear somebody sigh, ‘Life is hard,’ I am always tempted to ask, ‘Compared to what?’”
– Sydney J. Harris

“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
– George Carlin

“Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.”
– Miles Kington

“It’s always darkest before the dawn. So if you’re going to steal your neighbor’s newspaper, that’s the time to do it.”
– Navjot Singh Sidhu

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
– Winston Churchill

“Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”
– William James

“Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow Internet to see who they really are.”
– Will Ferrell

“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
– George Carlin

Short and Funny Wednesday Quotes

“After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF.”
– Unknown

“I can resist anything except temptation.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Time is an illusion. Lunchtime is doubly so.”
– Douglas Adams

“Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.”
– Charlie McCarthy

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
– Dalai Lama

“Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.”
– Leslie Nielsen

“I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.”
– Charles Lamb

“Beat the 5 o’clock rush, leave work at noon.”
– Unknown

“Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.”
– John Ciardi

“Work is against human nature. The proof is that it makes us tired.”
– Michel Tournier

“My son is now an ‘entrepreneur.’ That’s what you’re called when you don’t have a job.”
– Ted Turner

“Pride, commitment and teamwork are words they use to get you to work for free.”
– Unknown

“A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B.”
– Fats Domino

“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.”
– Jim Carrey

“Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese.”
– Billie Burke

“Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth.”
– Unknown

“A clear conscience is a sure sign of a bad memory.”
– Mark Twain

“I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.”
– Groucho Marx

“I’m on a whiskey diet. I’ve lost three days already.”
– Tommy Cooper

“Common sense is like deodorant. The people who need it most never use it.”
– Unknown

“I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”
– Benjamin Franklin

Less Funny and More Motivational Wednesday Quotes

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
– Confucius

“Wednesday is a day to help others celebrate life. You and only you are accountable for what you extend and give to others.”
– Byron Pulsifer

“Someday is not a day of the week.”
– Denise Brennan-Nelson

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.”
– Zig Ziglar

“Wednesday morning came the weather was very fine, And the sun in the heavens brightly did shine, And continued so all the live long day.”
– William Topaz McGonagall

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
– Dale Carnegie

“Wednesdays will always bring smiles for the second half of the week.”
– Anthony T. Hincks

“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
– Richard Branson

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
– Wayne Dyer

“Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph.”
– Zig Ziglar

“Wednesdays were the best thing about Atlantis. The middle of the week was a traditional holiday there. Everyone stopped work and celebrated the fact that half the week was over.”
– Walter Moers

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
– John R. Wooden

“If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six hours sharpening my ax.”
– Abraham Lincoln

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C.S. Lewis

“Hard work compounds like interest, and the earlier you do it, the more time you have for the benefits to pay off.”
– Sam Altman

“The only way out is through.”
– Carl Jung

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”
– Will Rogers

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
– Conrad Hilton

“Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.”
– Henry Ford

“You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.”
– Zig Ziglar

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe

Want more inspiration for your Wednesday? Then check out these motivational Wednesday quotes, the short work quotes in this post and also the positive good morning quotes here.

October is here with lots of leaves in all kinds of colors, cozy sweaters and endless cups of warm tea or cocoa.

But it’s also a time when life can feel a bit overwhelming, when the days grow shorter and rain and wind can spoil the evenings and nights.

So to lighten the mood and help you release a bit of stress I’d like to share 45 of the most witty, positive, sarcastic and funny October quotes.

I hope you’ll find something here to make this a fun month and your Halloween a happy celebration.

Funny October Quotes That Will Make You Smile

“Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.”
– Carol Bishop Hipps

“During the day, I don’t believe in ghosts. At night, I’m a little more open-minded.”
– Unknown

“Some say fall is the season when the leaves change. I say it’s the season when my sweat pants never change.”
– Katie Nicole Felton

“I long for the days of pumpkins and ghosts; when the dead use homes and people as hosts.”
– E. Reyes

“If you’re ever wondering what to wear, just dress like a pumpkin, you’re good to go.”
– Devendra Banhart

“October was always the least dependable of months… full of ghosts and shadows.”
– Joy Fielding

“I wish that every day was Saturday and every month was October.”
– Charmaine J. Forde

“Chicago is an October sort of city, even in spring.”
– Nelson Algren

“October proved a riot to the senses and climaxed those giddy last weeks before Halloween.”
– Keith Donohue

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
– Lucy Maud Montgomery

“I have been younger in October than in all the months of spring.”
– W.S. Merwin

“It’s like summer wear the world out, and by October everyone is just ready for a nap.”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates

Funny and Sarcastic October Quotes for a Happy Halloween

“Halloween was confusing. All my life my parents said, ‘Never take candy from strangers.’ And then they dressed me up and said, ‘Go beg for it.’”
– Rita Rudner

“Halloween is right around the corner. You can tell because all the stores are decked out for Christmas.”
– Stephen Colbert

“I see my face in the mirror and go, ‘I’m a Halloween costume? That’s what they think of me?’”
– Drew Carey

“A person should always choose a costume which is in direct contrast to her own personality.”
– Lucy Van Pelt

“I’ll stop wearing black when they make a darker color.”
– Wednesday Addams

“On Halloween, the parents sent their kids out looking like me.”
– Rodney Dangerfield

“As a kid, Halloween was amazing. You dress like a superhero, you bang on your neighbor’s door and they give you candy. I do that today and my neighbor wants me arrested.”
– Jim Gaffigan

“This Halloween the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.”
– Conan O’Brien

“Halloween is the only time people can become what they want to be without getting fired.”
– Sylvester Stallone

“If you want to scare your boyfriend next Halloween, come dressed as what he fears most. Commitment.”
– Peter Nelson

“If human beings had genuine courage, they’d wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.”
– Douglas Copeland

“It’s all just a bunch of hocus pocus.”
– Max (from the movie Hocus Pocus)

“Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.”
– Mason Cooley

“I’m a homicidal maniac. They look just like everyone else.”
– Wednesday Addams

“Have you come to sing pumpkin carols?”
– Linus (from the movie It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown)

“It’s Halloween; everyone’s entitled to one good scare.”
– Brackett (from the movie Halloween)

“Every October I’m kidnapped and forced to scare birds at a local pumpkin patch.”
– Conan O’Brien

“The farther we’ve gotten from the magic and mystery of our past, the more we’ve come to need Halloween.”
– Paula Guran

“Kinda spooky that Halloween has never fallen on Friday the 13th.”
– Stephen Colbert

Witty and Hilarious October Quotes for a Fun Fall

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.”
– Hal Borland

“Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.”
– Doug Larson

“It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!”
– Winnie the Pooh

“My Halloween costume was so bad that people opened their doors and took candy from me.”
– Glen Nesbit

“Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter’s pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.”
– Dorothy Parker

“The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously.”
– Steve Sabol

“In autumn, don’t go to jewelers to see gold; go to the parks!”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan

“It’s like going back to school. You know, autumn! Time for ‘Harry Potter’.”
– Robbie Coltrane

“Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the ‘spirits’ of things.”
– Dee Snider

“October gave a party; The leaves by hundreds came, The Chestnuts, Oaks, and Maples, And leaves of every name. The Sunshine spread a carpet, And everything was grand, Miss Weather led the dancing, Professor Wind the band.”
– George Cooper

“Anyone could see that the wind was a special wind this night, and the darkness took on a special feel because it was All Hallows’ Eve.”
– Ray Bradbury

“Falling for autumn and not getting up.”
– Unknown

“Every day is Halloween, isn’t it? For some of us.”
– Tim Burton

Want more inspiration for a fun and happy fall? Then have a look at these short October quotes, the funny Halloween quotes in this post and also these inspirational October quotes. Plus, these funny fall quotes.

Senior year is here. And may feel like it’s just flying by.

So maybe you’ve started looking for that perfect quote for your yearbook or graduation.

In today’s post I’d like to help out with that by sharing 120 of the most iconic, inspirational, memorable and funny senior quotes.

I hope you’ll find something here that’ll make you laugh and help you reduce a bit of stress, something uplifting for when life feels bittersweet and something that’s a great fit or hilarious inspiration for your yearbook page, Instagram and group chats.

Funny and Iconic Senior Quotes for the Yearbook

“I want to thank Google, Wikipedia, and whoever invented copy and paste. Thank you.”
– Stephanie Flores

“If you like water, you already like 72% of me.”
– Alexandra Vu

“Education is important, but big biceps are importanter.”
– Hugh Vo

“My computer screen is brighter than my future.”
– Katia Perez

“When I die, I want the people I did group projects with to lower me into the ground so they can let me down one last time.”
– Jenna Allen

“I don’t always graduate, but when I do, it’s barely.”
– Hannah Goldsborough

“Goodbye everyone. I’ll remember you all in therapy.”
– Plankton (from SpongeBob)

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.”
– W.C. Fields

“Cheaters never win, but I just graduated.”
– Richard Gilot

“I’ve been a Ho all my life.”
– Michelle Ho

“A lot of girls didn’t like me this year, but their boyfriends did.”
– Stephany Esquivel

“I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.”
– Ankit Jain

“To all the teachers that never taught me a thing…”
– Julia Simsuangco

“If somebody ever asks you to do something, do it really bad, so you never have to do it again.”
– Joanna Clark

“Morgan is my girlfriend. – Nobody”
– Morgan Worley

“Don’t follow your dreams… Follow my twitter: @nerojordan”
– Jordan Nero

“I’ve learned to say here when the teacher hesitates while taking attendance.”
– Omotola Omotinugbon

“Ravioli, ravioli, give me the diplomioli.”
– Maximiliano Navarro

“It’s so hard being a single mom when you have no kids and are a male teenager.”
– Aaron

“I used to be a straight A student, now I’m not even straight.”
– Martin Sanchez

Short and Funny Senior Quotes Ideas

“Shoot for the moon; if you miss you will die in outer space, which is cool.”
– Katya Zamolodchikova

“Why fall in love when you can fall asleep.”
– Jessica Enciso

“If you ain’t talking money… I don’t want to talk.”
– Michael and Steven DiBlasi

“Hannah Montana said nobody’s perfect, but here I am.”
– Alexander Gouon

“If idiots could fly, this place would be an airport.”
– Daniel Jones

“WE ARE NOT RELATED.”
– The Nguyens

“The ‘s’ is silent.”
– Pareekshit Ravi

“Life is short. Drive fast and leave a sexy corpse. That’s one of my mottos.”
– Stanley Hudson (The Office)

“Waking up is the second hardest thing in the morning.”
– Connor Hart

“That’s hot.”
– Paris Hilton

“I want to thank me for believing in me.”
– Snoop Dogg

“Hakuna matata.”
– The Lion King

“Gotta blast!”
– Jimmy Neutron

“My stummy hurt.”
– Playboi Carti

“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Remember… The more you weigh the harder you are to kidnap. Stay safe… Eat cake.”
– Iyanna Morgan

“Sam just stole my girl again. – Everyone”
– Samuel Teehee

“I am not Amith. I am a legend.”
– Amith M.

“Feeling so good. Looking so bad.”
– Rihanna

Hilarious Senior Quotes for Graduation from High School

“High school was easy. It was like riding a bike. Except the bike was on fire and the ground was on fire and everything was on fire because it was hell.”
– Randey Chung

“I spent 113,880 hours of my life for a paper and a handshake.”
– Anonymous

“If you’re seeing this quote in the yearbook, I got all four math credits. Trust me, that means you can too.”
– Gabriela Willis

“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.”
– Muhammad Ali

“All three years of high school, I had my earphones on, and no one ever knew.”
– Amena Al-shugaa

“… was released from his four-year sentence.”
– Faizon Graham

“My senior project was to make a clone. A+”
– Unknown twins

“I’m actually not funny, I’m just really mean and people think I’m joking.”
– Alixandra Garcia

“The only reason I went to school all this time is to distract myself from the fact that I’ll never be Beyoncé.”
– McKenzie Ward

“When are our senior quotes due?”
– Jeffrey Goodwin

“I got kicked out of Hogwarts for using black magic.”
– Damenian Sparks

“You need a good pole to get high (pole vault).”
– Patrick Hughes

“Just because you’re trash doesn’t mean you can’t do great things. It’s called garbage can, not garbage cannot.”
– Unknown

“100 character limit for our senior quote? That seems unfair. We refuse to be constrained by these ru.”
– Aditya Tammana

“I was the Beyoncé in a school full of Michelles.”
– Jose Alvarez

“Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know if you’re gonna graduate.”
– Franco Citlalli

“I’m sorry, did my shoulders distract you from reading this quote?”
– Victoria DiPaolo

“Of course I dress well. I didn’t spend all that time in the closet for nothing.”
– Ian Longley

“See kids… I told you your mom was hot back in high school.”
– Paulyn Trinh

“Life is tough, but it’s a whole lot tougher if you’re stupid.”
– John Wayne

“I cheated on all my exams.”
– Roshan McGuinness

Cute, Unique and Funny Senior Quotes

“Follow your heart, but take your brain with you.”
– Alfred Adler

“If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.”
– Milton Berle

“Long story short, I survived.”
– Taylor Swift

“I wouldn’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.”
– Groucho Marx

“Remember to always be yourself, unless you suck. Then pretend to be someone else.”
– Mitchell Wieland

“I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.”
– Coco Chanel

“Flaws? Honey, it’s called character.”
– Unknown

“Don’t wait for the perfect moment. Take the moment and make it perfect.”
– Zoey Sayward

“Opinions are like mixtapes: I don’t want to hear yours.”
– Spencer Howard

“Be careful who you call crazy. Some of us think it’s a compliment.”
– Marilynn Dawson

“I am ready to face any challenges that might be foolish enough to face me.”
– Dwight Schrute (The Office)

“You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world and there’s still going to be someone who hates peaches.”
– Dita Von Teese

“When I’m sad, I stop being sad, and just be awesome instead. True story.”
– Barney Stinson (How I Met Your Mother)

“Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.”
– Tina Fey

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
– Oscar Wilde

“I did meet some of the most insufferable people, but they also met me.”
– Shane Madej

“Mr. Stark, I don’t feel so good.”
– Peter Parker (Avengers: Infinity War)

“I’m not a businessman; I’m a business, man.”
– Jay-Z

“No Met Gala, but I’m everybody mood board.”
– Tyler, The Creator

“If I die, turn my tweets into a book.”
– Gina Linetti (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)

More Inspirational and Less Funny Senior Year Quotes

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.”
– Dr. Seuss

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
– C.S. Lewis

“The only thing you can do in this life is pursue your passions, celebrate your bloopers and never stop following your fear.”
– Grace Helbig

“The highest result of education is tolerance.”
– Helen Keller

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love.”
– Maya Angelou

“Your education is a dress rehearsal for a life that is yours to lead.”
– Nora Ephron

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”
– Steve Jobs

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
– Malcolm X

“Do not let making a living prevent you from making a life.”
– John Wooden

“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.”
– Alfred Mercier

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
– Truman Capote

“The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.”
– Edward Koch

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe

“One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals.”
– Michelle Obama

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.”
– Tom Brokaw

“Kid, you’ll move mountains.”
– Dr. Seuss

“Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.”
– James Dean

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”
– Confucius

Funny and Iconic Senior Quotes from Movies and TV-shows

“You know what the happiest animal on Earth is? It’s a goldfish. Y’know why? It’s got a 10-second memory. Be a goldfish.”
– Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso)

“Were we supposed to have a quote?”
– Ann Paul Veal (Arrested Development)

“I’m not great at the advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?”
– Chandler Bing (Friends)

“If I’m not back in five minutes, just wait longer.”
– Ace Ventura (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective)

“I’m in a glass case of emotion!”
– Ron Burgundy (Anchorman)

“Our goal is to go out like Willie Nelson, on a high.”
– Ted Lasso (Ted Lasso)

“Well, nobody’s perfect.”
– Osgood (Some Like It Hot)

“Snap out of it!”
– Loretta Castorini (Moonstruck)

“Attention campers, lunch has been canceled due to lack of hustle. Deal with it.”
– Tony Perkis (Heavyweights)

“I’ll say this to you, my friend, with all the love in my heart and all the wisdom of the universe: Take it sleazy.”
– Michael (The Good Place)

“Life’s a garden, dig it!”
– Joe Dirt

“I’ve done my waiting! 12 years of it! In Azkaban!”
– Sirius Black (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban)

“It’s supposed to be hard. If it were easy, everyone would do it.”
– Jimmy Dugan (A League of Their Own)

“You met me at a very strange time in my life.”
– The Narrator (Fight Club)

“‘You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.’ – Wayne Gretzky”
– Michael Scott (The Office)

“All my life I’ve had one dream: to achieve my many goals.”
– Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)

“Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don’t they?”
– Dorothy (The Wizard of Oz)

“I don’t cause commotions. I am one.”
– Elphaba (Wicked)

“We really did have everything, didn’t we?”
– Randall (Don’t Look Up)

“I want to live my life so that I’ll be able to read an in-depth biography about myself in later years and not puke.”
– Paris Geller (Gilmore Girls)

Want more inspiration for your senior year and graduation? Then have a look at these top 35 senior quotes, the funny graduation quotes here and also these short and uplifting graduation quotes.

Fall is here again.

With cozy sweaters and warm cups of cocoa to help you deal with the dark evenings. With stressful and rainy days. And leaves that wind up everywhere.

It’s a lovely season with crisp air and beautiful colors. But it can also be a bit too much, as work and schools start up again and you  feel overwhelmed by homework, evening chores or prepping for the holidays.

So in today’s post I’d like to simply share 51 of the most funny fall quotes. To help you and the people in your life get a few good laughs and release some stress.

I hope you’ll find something helpful here.

Funny Fall Quotes That Will Make You Laugh

“Some say fall is the season when the leaves change. I say it’s the season when my sweat pants never change.”
– Katie Nicole Felton

“Summer makes me drowsy. Autumn makes me sing. Winter’s pretty lousy, but I hate Spring.”
– Dorothy Parker

“Autumn is a season followed immediately by looking forward to spring.”
– Doug Larson

“Autumn is the hardest season. The leaves are all falling, and they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground.”
– Andrea Gibson

“Fall colors are funny. They’re so bright and intense and beautiful. It’s like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary.”
– Siobhan Vivian

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.”
– E.E. Cummings

“The autumn wind is a pirate. Blustering in from sea with a rollicking song he sweeps along swaggering boisterously. His face is weather beaten, he wears a hooded sash with a silver hat about his head… The autumn wind is a raider, pillaging just for fun.”
– Steve Sabol

“No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, no fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds – November!”
– Thomas Hood

“Autumn leaves are falling, filling up the streets; golden colors on the lawn, nature’s trick or treat!”
– Rusty Fischer

“The heat of autumn is different from the heat of summer. One ripens apples, the other turns them to cider.”
– Jane Hirshfield

“In autumn, don’t go to jewelers to see gold; go to the parks!”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan

“It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!”
– Winnie the Pooh

“Happy September! The world shall very soon transform into pumpkin everything.”
– Keith Wynn

“For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England, there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October.”
– Hal Borland

Short Funny Fall Quotes for Your Instagram

“Let’s pumpkin spice things up a bit.”
– Unknown

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”
– Chad Sugg

“My favorite color is October.”
– Unknown

“Autumn wins you best by this, its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.”
– Robert Browning

“Espresso yourself with fall flavors.”
– Unknown

“Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature.”
– Tom Robbins

“Falling for autumn and not getting up.”
– Unknown

“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
– L.M. Montgomery

“Happy fall y’all.”
– Unknown

“Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.”
– Steve Almond

“Oh my gourd, we’ve got plenty!”
– Unknown

Hilarious Fall Quotes for Work (Great to Share with Co-Workers on a Bad Day)

“I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
– Jerome K. Jerome

“I used to love September, but now it just rhymes with remember.”
– Dominic Riccitello

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.”
– Carol Bishop Hipps

“September tries its best to have us forget summer.”
– Bernard Williams

“I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.”
– Henry Youngman

“My keyboard must be broken, I keep hitting the escape key all autumn long, but I’m still at work.”
– Unknown

“September was a thirty-days long goodbye to summer.”
– Lea Malot

“Success is just a matter of luck, ask any failure.”
– Earl Wilson

“No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.”
– Groucho Marx

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
– Dalai Lama

“We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost.”
– Henry Rollins

“It’s like summer wear the world out, and by October everyone is just ready for a nap.”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished.”
– Leslie Nielsen

Funny Fall Quotes for Your Autumn Letter Board

“My favorite poem is the one that starts ‘Thirty days hath September’ because it actually tells you something.”
– Groucho Marx

“Sweater weather is always better together.”
– Unknown

“Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.”
– Mary Berry

“Pumpkin spice and everything nice.”
– Unknown

“It’s like going back to school. You know, autumn! Time for ‘Harry Potter’.”
– Robbie Coltrane

“During the day, I don’t believe in ghosts. At night, I’m a little more open-minded.”
– Unknown

“A sweater is like life, you get nothing out of it that you don’t put into it!”
– Marilyn Monroe

“Leaves are falling. Autumn is calling. No matter if you want it or not.”
– Unknown

“Autumn skies and pumpkin pies, I can tell no lies, this I love.”
– Unknown

“Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.”
– Hal Borland

Want more inspiration and laughs for your autumn season? Then have a look at these inspirational fall quotes, the hilarious work quotes here and also this one with plenty of funny teamwork quotes.

It’s September.

The month that brings mixed feelings and colors as the sunny and warm days of summer fade out and are replaced with crisp autumn air, chilly rains and the regular days of work or school.

To help you welcome and make the most of this fall transition I’d like to share 100 of the most powerful, beautiful and positive short September quotes.

I hope you’ll find something here to make this a motivated and successful month and a happy and fun one filled with more laughter and less stress.

Short and Inspirational September Quotes and Sayings

“As the alluring song of September begins to whisper in my ear, my passionate spirit yearns for the splendor of its promise.”
– Peggy Toney Horton

“When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn.”
– V V Brown

“Happily we bask in this warm September sun, which illuminates all creatures.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.”
– Jim Bishop

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
– Albert Camus

“September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.”
– Alexander Theroux

“Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.”
– Virginia Woolf

“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“And then the sun took a step back, the leaves lulled themselves to sleep, and autumn awakened.”
– Raquel Franco

“Fallen leaves on the ground are the golden song of immortal creativity.”
– Amit Ray

“Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day.”
– Shira Tamir

“The leaves are all falling, and they’re falling like they’re falling in love with the ground.”
– Andrea Gibson

“Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
– Emily Brontë

“There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.”
– Joe. L. Wheeler

“Is this not a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love – that makes life and nature harmonize.”
– George Eliot

“If a year was tucked inside of a clock, then autumn would be the magic hour.”
– Victoria Erickson

“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.”
– Stanley Horowitz

“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
– Sarah Addison Allen

“Notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

Short Motivational September Quotes for Work

“And suddenly, you just know it’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.”
– Meister Eckhart

“I am most radiant and full of energy when the leaves are falling and there is a ghost of change in the air.”
– Anna Madsen

“Let’s strive to be better in September!”
– Charmaine J. Forde

“Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.”
– Roger Rosenblatt

“The window is open, admitting the September breeze: A month that smells like notebook paper and pencil shavings, autumn leaves and car oil. A month that smells like progress and moving on.”
– Lauren Oliver

“September is the month of maturity; the heaped basket and the garnered sheaf. It is the month of climax and completion.”
– Patience Strong

“In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer’s dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.”
– Brené Brown

“How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.”
– Eleanor Clark

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
– Henry Ford

“September is the other January.”
– Gretchen Rubin

“It is worth taking the time to stop and contemplate at the beginning of each new month.”
– Nadine Locke

“Rest your eyes well before September because with all its colors autumn is coming to visit them!”
– Mehmet Murat Ildan

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
– Dolly Parton

“I love September, especially when we’re in it.”
– Willie Stargell

Funny Short September Quotes (Great for Your Letter Board)

“My favorite poem is the one that starts ‘Thirty days hath September’ because it actually tells you something.”
– Groucho Marx

“Of all the seasons, autumn offers the most to man and requires the least of him.”
– Hal Borland

“I used to love September, but now it just rhymes with remember.”
– Dominic Riccitello

“September tries its best to have us forget summer.”
– Bernard Williams

“Some say fall is the season when the leaves change. I say it’s the season when my sweat pants never change.”
– Katie Nicole Felton

“Happy September! The world shall very soon transform into pumpkin everything.”
– Keith Wynn

“Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.”
– Mary Berry

“No matter how many losing seasons you might have had in the past with your marriage, the good thing is that all teams get a fresh start once September begins.”
– Shon Hyneman

“It’s the first day of autumn! A time of hot chocolatey mornings, and toasty marshmallow evenings, and, best of all, leaping into leaves!”
– Winnie the Pooh

“Let’s all be nice to September.”
– Nitya Prakash

“Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?”
– Dodie Smith

“Louisiana in September was like an obscene phone call from nature.”
– Tom Robbins

Short Hello September Quotes to Welcome a Beautiful Fall

“Ah, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my soul.”
– Peggy Toney Horton

“It must be September, July sun has disappeared.”
– Charmaine J. Forde

“But the days grow short when you reach September.”
– Maxwell Anderson

“Let August be August. Let September be September. Let yourself just be even in the uncertainty.”
– Morgan Harper Nichols

“I miss your tan skin, your sweet smile, So good to me, so right.”
– Taylor Swift

“As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas, and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see.”
– Vincent van Gogh

“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.”
– Henry Beston

“September has come, it is hers whose vitality leaps in the autumn, whose nature prefers trees without leaves and a fire in the fireplace.”
– Louis MacNeice

“For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.”
– George Washington Cable

“Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night.”
– Hal Borland

“September days have the warmth of summer in their briefer hours, but in their lengthening evenings a prophetic breath of autumn.”
– Rowland E. Robinson

“By all these lovely tokens, September days are here. With summer’s best of weather and autumn’s best of cheer.”
– Helen Hunt Jackson

“I guess I’m just feeling all September-ish… All the trees change color, the days get very clear – with little smoke on the horizon from burning leaves. Pumpkins begin to come out.”
– George Selden

“We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer’s wreckage. We will welcome summer’s ghost.”
– Henry Rollins

“Autumn seemed to arrive suddenly that year. The morning of the first September was crisp and golden as an apple.”
– J. K. Rowling

“There comes a day each September when you wake up and know the summer is over and fall has arrived.”
– Ann Rinaldi

“But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed.”
– Stephen King

“All at once, summer collapsed into fall.”
– Oscar Wilde

“Autumn. Time to dim the sunlight, cue the moody fog, and watch nature’s most charming story unfold.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby

“O sweet September, thy first breezes bring The dry leaf’s rustle and the squirrel’s laughter.”
– George Arnold

“The morning had dawned clear and cold, with a crispness that hinted at the end of summer.”
– George R.R. Martin

“Wild is the music of the autumnal winds amongst the faded woods.”
– William Wordsworth

“Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.”
– Terri Guillemets

“September is dressing herself in showy dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias.”
– Olive Wendell Holmes

“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”
– Lauren DeStefano

“Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time and wander on this their only chance to soar.”
– Delia Owens

Short September Quotes for a Happy New Month and Your Instagram

“It was September, and there was a crackly feeling to the air.”
– Carolyn Parkhurst

“There is a clarity about September.”
– Faith Baldwin

“September smiled at her wonderful friends in all their colors and bright eyes and gentle ways.”
– Catherynne M. Valente

“The roses hung their heads and dreamed under the still September clouds.”
– E.L. Voynich

“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.”
– John Donne

“The old summer’s-end melancholy nips at my heels.”
– Sara Baume

“It was a lovely afternoon – such an afternoon as only September can produce when summer has stolen back for one more day of dream and glamour.”
– L.M. Montgomery

“Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.”
– Chad Sugg

“It was September. In the last days when things are getting sad for no reason.”
– Ray Bradbury

“September sky never looked more charming, or the sublime petals of the rose looked so graceful.”
– Avijeet Das

“As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough, to paint the beautiful things I see.”
– Vincent Van Gogh

“Nostalgia – that’s the autumn, dreaming through September. Just a million lovely things I will remember.”
– Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne

“As September rolls into October, I become obsessed with apples.”
– Monty Don

“Autumn is a poem – while you fall for everything, you remember that there is something worth dying for.”
– Laura Chouette

“Tonight I miss you like the sky misses his moon; a delicate epiphany growing on grass.”
– Avijeet Das

“Autumn is full of leave-taking. In September the swallows are chattering of destination and departure like a crowd of tourists.”
– Mary Webb

“A fallen leaf is nothing more than a summer’s wave goodbye.”
– Unknown

“Wine is the divine juice of September.”
– Voltaire

“Time turns flames to embers, You’ll have new Septembers, Everyone of us has messed up too.”
– Taylor Swift

“But now in September, the garden has cooled, and with it my possessiveness.”
– Robert Finch

“Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.”
– Donna Tartt

“There is a time in late September when the leaves are still green and the days are still warm, but somehow you know that it is all about to end.”
– Sharyn McCrumb

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the fall.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Sweet September Blessings! I am eternally grateful!”
– Charmaine J. Forde

“How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.”
– John Burroughs

“Let this be the September you always remember.”
– Morgan Harper Nichols

Want more inspiration and motivation for your autumn? Then have a look at these short fall quotes, the beautiful October quotes here plus these uplifting quotes on autumn and change.

The first day of school will soon be here.

It’s often a day of many emotions.

Excitement to learn new things and meet new friends. But maybe also nervousness and a bit of worry and uncertainty of how things will work out.

So to help you out I’d like to share 110 of the most inspirational, motivational, funny and stress reducing first day of school quotes.

I hope you’ll find something helpful here no matter if you’re a student starting a new chapter in life, a parent guiding your child or a teacher who needs a boost of positive energy.

Inspirational and Positive First Day of School Quotes

“I’ve always loved the first day of school better than the last day of school. Firsts are best because they are beginnings.”
– Jenny Han

“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”
– Taylor Swift

“Today is your opportunity to build the tomorrow you want.”
– Ken Poirot

“The most important day of a person’s education is the first day of school, not Graduation Day.”
– Harry Wong

“School bells are ringing loud and clear; vacation’s over, school is here.”
– Winifred C. Marshal

“The more that you read, the more things you know, the more you learn, the more places you’ll go.”
– Dr. Seuss

“Education is the key to unlocking the world, a passport to freedom.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.”
– B.B. King

“A new school year means new beginnings, new adventures, new friendships, and new challenges. The slate is clean and anything can happen.”
– Denise Witmer

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.”
– Dr. Seuss

“I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study… would be about the same as getting into paradise.”
– Booker T. Washington

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
– Plato

“Let us remember: one book, one pen, one child and one teacher can change the world.”
– Malala Yousafzai

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”
– Malcolm X

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“What we learn with pleasure we never forget.”
– Alfred Mercier

“The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice.”
– Brian Herbert

“Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.”
– Alan Cohen

“All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.”
– Ken Robinson

“The first day of school is our second New Year’s. It is our day to make resolutions, to look backward to former lapses and triumphs and to look ahead, usually with a mix of anxiety and hope, to the year to come.”
– Mark Edmundon

“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
– Victor Hugo

“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.”
– Dorothy Parker

“Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.”
– James Dewar

Motivational First Day of School Quotes for Students

“Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.”
– C.S. Lewis

“Nothing will work unless you do.”
– Maya Angelou

“Be nice to yourself. It’s hard to be happy when someone’s mean to you all the time.”
– Christine Arylo

“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.”
– Zig Ziglar

“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
– Robert Collier

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
– Lao Tzu

“Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do, and at some point, you will.”
– Venus Williams

“I’ve found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.”
– Brian Tracy

“Work hard, be kind and amazing things will happen.”
– Conan O’Brien

“Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they’re always there.”
– Norman Vincent Peale

“Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
– Carl Bard

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.”
– Mark Twain

“Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
– Wayne Dyer

“Be curious, not cool.”
– Ken Burns

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
– Thomas Huxley

“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
– A.A. Milne

“Make yourself proud.”
– Peter W. Smith

“They cannot stop me. I will get my education, if it is in the home, school, or anyplace.”
– Malala Yousafzai

“Dreams come a size too big so that we can grow into them.”
– Josie Bisset

“What I remember most about high school are the memories I created with my friends.”
– J.J. Watt

Funny First Day of School Quotes

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
– Mark Twain

“As long as teachers give tests, there will always be prayer in schools.”
– Unknown

“If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.”
– Edgar W. Howe

“Work hard, nap hard.”
– Demi Lovato

“There’s no tired like teacher tired at the beginning of a school year!”
– Unknown

“I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.”
– Lily Tomlin

“To be good is noble, but to teach others how to be good is nobler – and less trouble.”
– Mark Twain

“We all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.”
– Peter De Vries

“My school was so tough the school newspaper had an obituary column.”
– Norm Crosby

“Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken.”
– Bill Dodds

“The human brain is special. It starts working as soon as you get up and it doesn’t stop until you get to school.”
– Milton Berle

“You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.”
– Elbert Hubbard

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”
– Andy McIntyre

“The difference between school and life? In school, you’re taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you’re given a test that teaches you a lesson.”
– Tom Bodett

“I said school starts tomorrow. I didn’t say I was going to be there.”
– Kim Harrison

“Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.”
– Fran Lebowitz

“Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.”
– Lydia Child

“Some students drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.”
– E.C. McKenzie

“School is a lot like toilet paper. You only miss it when it’s gone.”
– Unknown

“It’s not that I hate school. I just hate waking up early in the morning.”
– Unknown

“You can drag my body to school but my spirit refuses to go.”
– Bill Watterson

First Day of School Quotes for Less Stress for Parents and Kids

“We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.”
– John Newton

“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”
– Vivian Greene

“Everything is a learning process: any time you fall over, it’s just teaching you to stand up the next time.”
– Joel Edgerton

“I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.”
– Steve Maraboli

“Don’t try hard to fit in, and certainly don’t try so hard to be different… just try hard to be you.”
– Zendaya

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying: I will try again tomorrow.”
– Mary Anne Radmacher

“Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time.”
– Chinese Proverb

“You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”
– Maya Angelou

“Being fearless isn’t being 100 percent not fearful, it’s being terrified but you jump anyway.”
– Taylor Swift

“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren’t enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.”
– Viggo Mortensen

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
– John R. Wooden

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
– James Baldwin

“Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.”
– Lady Bird Johnson

“The seed of learning gets planted today. Now all you have to do is feel yourself grow.”
– Unknown

“Your body is slowly getting ready to carry you to your first day at school, my princess. Although you’re a little nervous now, I am sure you’ll have fun there.”
– Unknown

“Aim for success, not perfection. Never give up your right to be wrong, because then you will lose the ability to learn new things and move forward with your life. Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism.”
– David M. Burns

“When you get back from school, Mommy and Daddy will be waiting for you. Go on, make new friends, meet some nice teachers, and learn something new on your first day!!”
– Unknown

“School is the beginning of a journey that will only bless you with good things in life. Take this overwhelming journey seriously, and give it your best.”
– Unknown

“You come here for one thing and one thing only, and that is to learn. I used to spend a lot of my life waiting for the day I could quit school, but then came to realize that so long as we are alive we never leave school. Life is a series of high schools, one after the other.”
– RuPaul

“Be curious about what you learn at school. Don’t be overconfident, ask a lot of questions, and above everything else, have a great time.”
– Unknown

“From holding my hand to stepping into the classroom – oh how time flies.”
– Unknown

“If you want to test your memory, try to recall what you were worrying about one year ago today.”
– E. Joseph Cossman

Short and Uplifting First Day of School Quotes for Teachers

“School is a building that has four walls with tomorrow inside.”
– Lon Watters

“A sense of curiosity is nature’s original school of education.”
– Smiley Blanton

“Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.”
– Japanese Proverb

“You can teach a student a lesson for a day; but if you can teach him to learn by creating curiosity, he will continue the learning process as long as he lives.”
– Clay P. Bedford

“If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society’s heroes.”
– Guy Kawasaki

“The duties of a teacher are neither few nor small, but they elevate the mind and give energy to the character.”
– Dorothea Dix

“Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.”
– Roger Lewin

“The future of the world is in my classroom today.”
– Ivan Welton Fitzwater

“Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of becoming.”
– Goethe

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
– Benjamin Franklin

“Our job is to teach the students we have, not the ones we would like to have. Not the ones we used to have. Those we have right now. All of them.”
– Dr. Kevin Maxwell

“Education doesn’t just make us smarter. It makes us whole.”
– Jill Biden

“Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.”
– Chinese Proverb

“The job of an educator is to teach students to see the vitality in themselves.”
– Joseph Campbell

“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
– Mark Van Doren

“Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students.”
– Solomon Ortiz

“Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.”
– Josef Albers

“Learn as much as you can while you are young, since life becomes too busy later.”
– Dana Stewart Scott

“Teaching is a work of heart.”
– Unknown

“Intelligence plus character – that is the true goal of education.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

“One teacher can change the world of a young child.”
– Unknown

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.”
– John Dewey

Want more motivation for the first day of school? Have a look at these inspirational back to school quotes, the motivational quotes for students here and also these positive and helpful education quotes.

August is here with plenty of hot and lazy days in the sun.

But it’s also a transitional period when summer soon is coming to a close and work and schools are starting again.

In today’s post I want to simply share 80 of the most positive, funny and beautiful short August quotes.

I hope these quick but powerful sayings will help you to make the most of these warm August days and the last of your summer.

Short August Quotes for The Last Days of Summer

“This morning, the sun endures past dawn. I realize that it is August: the summer’s last stand.”
– Sara Baume

“August of another summer, and once again I am drinking the sun and the lilies again are spread across the water.”
– Mary Oliver

“The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning.”
– Natalie Babbitt

“The quiet August noon has come. A slumberous silence fills the sky. The winds are still, the trees are dumb. In glassy sleep, the waters lie.”
– William Cullen Bryant

“Today is the first day of August; it is no longer July. Summer passes, and Summer friends will melt away like snow in spring.”
– Rolf van der Wind

“August is the slow, gentle month that stretches out the longest across the span of a year. It yawns and lingers on with the light in its palms.”
– Victoria Erickson

“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”
– Sylvia Plath

“August was nearly over – the month of apples and falling stars, the last care-free month for the school children.”
– Viktor N?krasov

“Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.”
– William Faulkner

“One evening in August you have an errand outdoors, and all of a sudden it’s pitch-black. It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive.”
– Tove Jansson

“August has passed, and yet summer continues by force to grow days. They sprout secretly between the chapters of the year, covertly included between its pages.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer

“When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away.”
– Sarah Helen Whitman

“My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.”
– Rick Bass

“It was August, and the fields were high with corn.”
– Melanie Gideon

“But I can see us lost in the memory, August slipped away into a moment in time.”
– Taylor Swift

“If June was the beginning of a hopeful summer, and July the juice middle, August was suddenly feeling like the bitter end.”
– Sarah Dessen

“August is that last flicker of fun and heat before everything fades and dies. The final moments of fun before the freeze.”
– Rasmenia Massoud

“Caught in the doldrums of August we may have regretted the departing summer.”
– Denis Mackail

“August brings into sharp focus and a furious boil everything I’ve been listening to in the late spring and summer.”
– Henry Rollins

“The sun was still all August, although calendar August was almost two weeks gone.”
– Stephen King

Positive and Short August Quotes and Sayings for a Happy Month

“Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.”
– Denise Levertov

“August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.”
– Joseph Wood Krutch

“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.”
– Jenny Han

“No one can believe that God is not good when the August gardens are in their heyday.”
– Gladys Taber

“The weather is great, and the sun is always out in August.”
– Anna Scott

“August is for changes and strength.”
– Luke Hamlet

“August is a time of growing up, of forgotten forevers, full of the sweetest intent.”
– Meka Boyle

“The brilliant poppy flaunts her head amidst the ripening grain, and adds her voice to sell the song that August is here again.”
– Helen M. Winslow

“It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation.”
– Max Heindel

“Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance, and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.”
– Kent Nerburn

“Every year I go to Denver, usually between June and August. I hire a car and head up to the Rocky Mountain National Park, about a three-hour drive. It’s my idea of heaven on earth.”
– Gavin Esler

“In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“August is ripening grain in the fields, vivid dahlias fling, huge tousled blossoms through gardens, and Joe Pye weed dusts the meadow purple.”
– Jean Hersey

“August breeze – perched on the flame tree, a red-vented Bulbul.”
– Meeta Ahluwalia

“That August time, it was a delight to watch the red moons wane to white.”
– Algernon Charles Swinburne

“Youth is in a grand flush, like the hot days of ending summer, and pleasant dreams thrall your spirit, like the smoky atmosphere that bathes the landscape of an August day.”
– Ik Marvel

“When summer opens, I see how fast it matures, and fear it will be short; but after the heats of July and August, I am reconciled, like one who has had his swing, to the cool of autumn.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“August is the month of the high sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease.”
– John Burroughs

“People don’t notice if it’s August or December when they are happy.”
– Anthony Mill

“Take me to that island where people celebrate in the streets in August.”
– Charmaine J. Forde

Funny and Short August Quotes for Your Instagram or Letter Board

“The month of August had turned into a griddle where the days just lay there and sizzled.”
– Sue Monk Kidd

“Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.”
– Russell Baker

“August is a gentle reminder for not doing a single thing from your new year resolution for seven months and not doing it for next five.”
– Crestless Wave

“Walking the streets of Charleston in the late afternoons of August was like walking through gauze or inhaling damaged silk.”
– Pat Conroy

“A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you’ve been taking.”
– Earl Wilson

“Leaving any bookstore is hard, especially on a day in August, when the street outside burns and glares, and the books inside are cool and crisp to the touch.”
– Jane Smiley

“Always keep mint on your windowsill in August, to ensure that buzzing flies will stay outside, where they belong.”
– Alice Hoffman

“August, the summer’s last messenger of misery, is a hollow actor.”
– Henry Rollins

“The pleasure of jogging and running is rather like that of wearing a fur coat in Texas in August: the true joy comes in being able to take the damn thing off.”
– Joseph Epstein

“A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawnmower is broken.”
– James Dent

“The August sun, God’s blood blister.”
– Donald E. Westlake

“Sometimes August isn’t recognized until December.”
– Meka Boyle

“It’s part of the American experience. We deal with mosquitoes in August.”
– Monica Hesse

“To all those pinning Halloween costumes and Christmas-themed recipes, let me just say, calm down! It’s August.”
– Unknown

“August is the Sunday of summer. I wish we could turn the hourglass over.”
– Mak Cov

“It’s a sure sign of summer if the chair gets up when you do.”
– Walter Winchell

“The English winter ending in July to recommence in August.”
– Lord Byron

“One time. In 1965. August, for about an hour, I was both fine AND dandy at the same time. But nobody asked me how I was.”
– George Carlin

Short and Beautiful August Quotes on the Magic of End of Summer

“I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.”
– Tove Jansson

“Less than a month ago, all of August still stretched before us – long and golden and reassuring, like an endless period of delicious sleep.”
– Lauren Oliver

“The August cloud melts into streams of rain.”
– William Cullen Bryant

“One day you discover you are alive… but, not long after, the sun goes out. Snow falls, but no one sees it, on an August noon.”
– Ray Bradbury

“August is the month when wars start. It’s when the water dries up, and the spirit begins to wither.”
– Al Aronowitz

“Dry August and warm, doth harvest no harm.”
– Thomas Tusser

“The cutting of the grass reminds me of the August practice.”
– Garth Brooks

“The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there, a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.”
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“I saw the spiders marching through the air, swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day in latter August when the hay came creaking to the barn.”
– Robert Lowell

“In the mute August afternoon, they trembled to some undertune of music in the silver air.”
– Algernon Charles Swinburne

“When August days are hot and dry, I won’t sit by and sigh or die, I’ll get my bottle on the sly, and go ahead, and fish, and lie.”
– Paul Laurence Dunbar

“Those late August mornings smelt of autumn from day-break till the hour when the sun-baked earth allowed the cool sea breezes to drive back the then less heavy aroma of threshed wheat, open furrows, and reeking manure.”
– Colette

“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
– Wallace Stevens

“How sociable the garden was. We ate and talked in the given light. The children put their toys on the grass. All the warm wakeful August night.”
– Thom Gunn

“August evenings are especially stricken with melancholy – as if the ghosts of all past summers came rushing to haunt my heart.”
– Letters of Summer Past

“Smell brings to mind a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town.”
– Diane Ackerman

“For the rest of the vacation, there was hardly a day when they did not go up to it. Preferably in the long, smoky, delicious August evenings when the white moths sailed over the tansy plantation.”
– Lucy Maud Montgomery

“In an inescapable blanket of heat settled over Paducah, the last gasping breath of summer roaring its weight out over the populace.”
– Kelsey Brickl

“Around the tenth of August, any year, you can look up in the sky at night and see dozens and dozens of shooting stars.”
– Elizabeth Enright

“This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight like a spy through the ripening countryside.”
– Sarah Orne Jewett

“Late August still feels like summer here in the Ozarks, but it is the time of year the nighthawks are moving on to their South American wintering grounds.”
– Sue Hubbell

“The crickets felt it was their duty to warn everybody that summertime cannot last forever. Even on the most beautiful days in the whole year – the days when summer is changing into autumn – the crickets spread the rumor of sadness and change.”
– E.B. White

Want more inspiration for this part of the summer? Then have a look at these inspirational August quotes, the end of summer quotes in this post and also these short summer quotes.