October: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August and February.
Mark Twain
Related October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are Ju... MARK TWAIN It's a 90-day business, from mid-June to mid-September. The biggest months are July and August. I sh... JOE SNYDER Shoot, haven't seen anything like that in a while. It's good to see. Hopefully, we'll do that in Apr... BRAD RADKE Summer has no day,' she said. 'We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that ... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD Thirty days hath November,
April, June, and September,
February hath xxviii alone,
And a... RICHARD GRAFTON There was in September. But October, November, December and January have surprised everyone, and rev... LANA TRAMONTE One sort of optional thing you might do is to realize there are six seasons instead of four. The poe... KURT VONNEGUT JR. Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
February eight-and-twenty all alone,
... UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Since the hurricane, we're actually doing very good here. There was (no revenue) in September. But O... LANA TRAMONTE In historical records, when a La Nina occurs, rainfall in Illinois is above normal in March and Apri... DEREK WINSTANLEY Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
All the rest have thirty-one
Exce... UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR All of them married within six months, one in December, then March and one in June. GENEVA WISE January, February and March are the months we get the majority of our customers. BERNIE VANMIDDLESWORTH We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. S... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD So far this fiscal year, we have experienced sales tax increases over the same time last year of 5.3... JIM WEHMEIER Our sales dropped $3,400 in November, $7,600 in December, $10,000 in January, $27,000 in February an... CECIL COLEMAN You can see snow-covered Alps on a clear day in July. We don't go over in winter. We spend May, June... CARL GABLE The Bay of Bengal is hit frequently by cyclones. The months of November and May, in particular, are ... A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in th... EDWARD BURNETT TYLOR October is a bad month anyway. Historically, November and December are pretty good months and invest... ELVIS PICARDO As it turned out last year, that December deadline was meaningless, as the budget process went into ... BARRY WEINSTEIN The human body is not made to play heavy-duty basketball eleven months a year. It doesn't always sho... DAVID BAUMAN This is the ticket that will win in June, win in November and be ready to govern in January. CHET CULVER August, September and some of October tend to be our peak months. We are seeing some volume pickup, ... DON WYLIE We had far and away the best October, November, December and January that we've ever had, and quite ... JACK MOYER My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July... RICK BASS Late March through April and early May are definitely among the most variable months. That's one of ... ADRIENNE FREEMAN You always hear that September and October are bad months for the stock market, especially October. ... BILL ROE Usually January and February are slow months, but not this year. JENIFER GILLILAND If I'm one of the investors that got in early, I'm going to take some off the table, ... But at the ... ERIC ROSS First, the department did not participate in the early February press conference when Ed Smart and h... LEE BENSON First, the department did not participate in the early February press conference when Ed Smart and h... LEE BENSON Instead of one major event a month, we tried to have one every weekend throughout June, July and Aug... DAVID HEDRICK There is October in every November and there is November in every December! All seasons melted in ea... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Oracle reported it was ahead of plan in December and January but saw a significant slowdown in Febru... GRETCHEN TEAGARDEN Although everyone keeps talking about holiday depression, hospital admissions for depression actuall... GEORGIA WITKIN We have secured one cargo in January, two in February. We are looking to fill one of our two slots i... DAVID NICHOLAS [March 25 -] Songs and Stories for Everybody ... the Mark Twain of contemporary kids' music. BILL HARLEY I think the biggie is still to come, ... That's the heating bill. In December, people will get fuel ... HUMPY WHEELER We revised the budget based upon September and October taxes that had been collected. When I am look... JULES GAUDIN Summertime, and the reading is easy... Well, maybe not easy, exactly, but July and August are hardly... MICHAEL DIRDA We took a hit in the end of November and December. Actually, I can't really remember a break like th... BUTCH TRUITT I had a very bad year in my life. My mother died in February. I was 16 in April and graduated from h... JAMES ROUSE Although there was some improvements in the PC chain in February/March, April is showing weakness. STEVE MILUNOVICH We're looking to start in mid to late February and run through March and all of April. DAVE CASSELS You sweat out the free agent thing in November then you make the trades in December. Then you strugg... WHITEY HERZOG January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth how... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY January grey is here,
Like a sexton by her grave;
February bears the bier,
March with gr... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Even if February and March turn chilly in the end, this mild January is still going to have a lot to... DAVID SALMON There aren't many consistent big summer stock winners. In our sector watch, biotech is the one secto... JEFFREY HIRSCH There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In ... ALEXANDER SKARSGARD Our general season runs from the long weekend in May to October 31. This year, with the fish study a... KLAUS MADINGER For September, October and November, tourism to New Orleans will be crippled for sure. BOBBY BOWERS To grow the endowment, we established our investment parameters and then began incrementally to depl... BRADLEY CALLICOTT Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June bug, than an old bird of par... MARK TWAIN The entire division is going. They'll start going next week and will leave out in regular flights th... GEORGE HEATH It is true that Perry March was named as a suspect in this case in search warrant documentation in m... DON AARON There's still plenty of trout in the water and especially in the mountains they will carry over very... MIKE SHINGLETON As for September 11, let us not too easily grant the Americans possession of that date on the calend... J. M. COETZEE Thistles are best controlled in the fall (October or November) or spring (March). The small rosettes... TIM SCHNAKENBERG Although we are on the road for much of November, December and part of January, if we can pick up so... CHARLIE COLES We usually see our first confirmed cases in December, with peak activity in January [and into] early... DR. MATTHEW CARTTER Hopefully we'll be in the studio in February or March. It would be nice to have something out by Jul... DUFF MCKAGAN November typically marks the beginning of the growth season in stocks. This is due in large part to ... DOUG FABIAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES This is February weather in December. ED SILLIERE Total net subscriber additions for the Korean market declined from 550,000 and 417,000 in October an... MARC CABI I started singing for The Phantom in January, and we started filming in October and I sang all the w... GERARD BUTLER We typically see severe weather in November, December and January; so some of our really severe even... CLIFF LUSK DOE is right-on with its estimate. But we will see a lot of spikes outside of the forecasted range i... BRYANT GIMLIN If you've had a turbulent August/September period, ... It's less likely you're going to get sucker-p... ROBERT BRUSCA Our contract with Inland expired in June, and both sides started negotiating the new contract in Mar... DAVID LANDRY This September is going to be my biggest sales month in 10 years. Usually October is the biggest mon... GARY WOOD I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers:
Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.
I ... ROBERT HERRICK I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: / Of April, May, of June, and July-flowers. / I si... ROBERT HERRICK People question the meter reading. It is definitely sticker shock. It doesn't hit you until you open... CHASE KELLEY The realistic goal is June or July of this year. MATT BOURGEOIS But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel. MARK TWAIN We do not believe that September was the bottom, but December or March may be. We recognize that car... JOZEF STRAUSS Rather than being one of five blockbusters in June, we wanted to be the one right now and that's wha... BRUCE SNYDER It is not a big surprise, some of it is kind of a backlash to this saw-tooth pattern that we have se... ALAN RUSKIN With little movement in Ohio's labor market from January to February, the state's unemployment rate ... BARBARA RILEY We've already had a dangerous situation in January with a number of grass fires. But the month I dre... TODD MATTHEWS Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your th... KAREN JOY FOWLER We don't get typhoons in December. They normally end by September. A typhoon happening in Octobe... BENIGNO AQUINO III I might make a couple of early trips (with the Reds), and then in September. But I think from April ... WAYNE KRIVSKY Enough schools may have started earlier this year, and, as a result, the increase in employment came... HOWARD ROTH Now that we have the months of December and January finished, we felt it necessary to factor those r... BRIAN HALLA Our September sales performance was softer than expected. However, when you consider our exceptional... BILL LOVEJOY It's been pouring rain for a couple of months and it's not even the first of February. We're looking... ANDY BRYANT I know,” said November. He was pale and thin lipped. He helped October out of the wooden chair. �... NEIL GAIMAN The months of October and November were terrific for Jefferson Parish -- on both banks of the river.... BOB ISRAEL They always say, 'Championships are won in March.' And that's true but you have to be making progres... DREW FRANK Given that Super Bowl is scheduled one week later this year, discounters that have significant food ... KEN PERKINS For those two months of off-season in November and December, it's nice to be able to practice whenev... CHARLES HOWELL III Gasoline stocks are going to become tight. We're going to see May and June contracts above $2. JAMES CORDIER Six of the seven last years, technology stocks have been weak around that time period. June, July ha... ANDREW NEFF I had surgery to repair the ACL in February 2010 and was back in the gym by June, but rushed things ... SHAWN JOHNSON They expect us to open our doors in September, but we don't get our money until November or December... ROBERT BROWN Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is fo... MARK TWAIN
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