Fancy with prophetic glance
Sees the teeming months advance;
The field, the forest, green and gay;
The dappled slope, the tedded hay;
Sees the reddening orchard blow.
The harvest wave, the vintage flow. [ Warton ]

Tomorrow yet would reap today.
As we bear blossoms of the dead;
Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed
Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. [ Tennyson ]

Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed
Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

That sort of tympani which requires nine months for cure. [ Proverb ]

Here (in Italy) is ceaseless spring, and summer in months in which summer is alien. [ Virgil ]

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age. [ John Dryden ]

A friendship will be young after the lapse of a century; a passion is old at the end of three months. [ Nigu ]

There is in things a resistance superior to ideas, but for which the world would not exist six months. [ Lamennais ]

Friendship is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity. [ La Bruyere ]

Die two months ago, and not forgotten yet? Then there's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year. [ William Shakespeare ]

The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult, - whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water, - which afterwards subside into cheerful peace. [ George Eliot ]

I smoke in bed until I have to go to sleep; I wake up in the night, sometimes once, sometimes twice; sometimes three times, and I never waste any of these opportunities to smoke. This habit is so old and dear and precious to me that I would feel as you, sir, would feel if you should lose the only moral you've got - meaning the chairman - if you've got one: I am making no charges: I will grant, here, that I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]