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Months-February: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

For they say, if money go before, all ways do lie open.— Shakespeare — Merry Wives of Windsor. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 173.

Money is a good soldier, sir, and will on.— Shakespeare — Merry Wives of Windsor. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 175.

Why, give him gold enough and marry him to a puppet or an aglet-baby; or an old trot with ne'er a tooth in her head, though she Subject to a kind of disease, which at that have as many diseases as two-and-fifty horses; why, nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal.— Shakespeare — Taming of the Shrew. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 78.

But the jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels.— TENNYSON — Locksley Hall. St. 53.

Thirty dayes hath November, April, June, and September, February hath xxviii alone, And all the rest have xxxi.— RICHARD GRAFTON — Abridgement of the

Chronicles of Englande. 1570. 8vo. "A rule to knowe how many dayes every moneth in the yeare hath." Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; February eight-and-twenty all alone, And all the rest have thirty-one: Unless that leap-year doth combine, And give to February twenty-nine. Return from Parnassus. (London. 1606.) February. Come when the rains Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice, While the slant sun of February pours Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach! The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps And the broad arching portals of the grove Welcome thy entering.— BRYANT — A Winter Piece. L. 60.

The February sunshine steeps your boughs And tints the buds and swells the leaves within.— BRYANT — Among the Trees. L. 53.

February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.— HERBERT — Jacula Prudentum.