April Quotes - Page 6

• A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Funny, Fake People

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.690, Pan Macmillan

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• Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

  Robert Frost

  Life, Forgiveness, God

  In the Clearing (1962) "Cluster of Faith"

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• The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Funny Inspirational, Memorable

  William Shakespeare (1836). “The works of Shakespeare”, p.196

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• One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

  Milton Friedman

  Mistake, Judging, Politics

  Interview with Richard Heffner on "The Open Mind", December 7, 1975.

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• The April rain, the April rain,
  Comes slanting down in fitful showers,
  Then from the furrow shoots the grain,
  And banks are fledged with nestling flowers;
  And in grey shawl and woodland bowers
  The cuckoo through the April rain
  Calls once again.

  Mathilde Blind

  Spring, Rain, Flower

  Mathilde Blind, “April Rain”

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• When the April wind wakes the call for the soil, I hold the plough as my only hold upon the earth, and, as I follow through the fresh and fragrant furrow, I am planted with every foot-step, growing, budding, blooming into a spirit of spring.

  Dallas Lore Sharp

  Spring, Science, Wind

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• In April, we cannot see sunflowers in France, so we might say the sunflowers do not exist. But the local farmers have already planted thousands of seeds, and when they look at the bare hills, they may be able to see the sunflowers already. The sunflowers are there. They lack only the conditions of sun, heat, rain and July. Just because we cannot see them does not mean that they do not exist.

  Nhat Hanh

  Peace, Spring, Rain

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• Is it worth it to be born if you cannot remember it later? And, technically speaking, had I ever been born? Other people, of course, said that I was. As far as I know, I was born in late April, at sixty years of age, in a hospital room.

  Umberto Eco

  Life, Years, People

  "The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana". Book by Umberto Eco, 2004.

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• This spring as it comes bursts up in bonfires green,
  Wild puffing of emerald trees, and flame-filled bushes,
  Thorn-blossom lifting in wreaths of smoke between
  Where the wood fumes up and the watery, flickering rushes.
  I am amazed at this spring, this conflagration
  Of green fires lit on the soil of the earth, this blaze
  Of growing, and sparks that puff in wild gyration,
  Faces of people streaming across my gaze.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spring, Fire, Flames

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.6168, Delphi Classics

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• A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

  Robert Frost

  Mothers Day, Mom, Women

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• Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on you.

  Virginia Foxx

  Stupid, Silly, Fools Day

  "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. November 6, 2009.

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• An altered look about the hills; A Tyrian light the village fills; A wider sunrise in the dawn; A deeper twilight on the lawn; A print of a vermilion foot; A purple finger on the slope; A flippant fly upon the pane; A spider at his trade again; An added strut in chanticleer; A flower expected everywhere.

  Emily Dickinson

  Spring, Flower, Twilight

  Emily Dickinson (1994). “The Works of Emily Dickinson”, p.114, Wordsworth Editions

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• Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.

  Evan Esar

  Funny, Children, Asking Questions

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• April Rain It is not raining rain to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers on the hills. The clouds of gray engulf the day And overwhelm the town; It is not raining rain to me, It's raining roses down. It is not raining rain to me, But fields of clover bloom, Where any buccaneering bee May find a bed and room. A health unto the happy! A fig for him who frets!- It is not raining rain to me, It's raining violets.

  Robert Loveman

  Rain, Flower, Clouds

  Robert Loveman, “April Rain”

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• Sweet April's tears, Dead on the hem of May.

  Alexander Smith

  Sweet, Tears, Hem

  alexander smith (1853). “poems”, p.112

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• I have great faith in fools,— self-confidence my friends will call it.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Friendship, Confidence

  "The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe".

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• Indoors or out, no one relaxes
  In March, that month of wind and taxes,
  The wind will presently disappear,
  The taxes last us all the year.

  Ogden Nash

  Spring, Years, Wind

  "Thar She Blows". "Versus". Book by Ogden Nash, 1949.

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• The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Spring, Differences, Months

  Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Fisherman's Luck”, p.95, Wildside Press LLC

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• Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

  Ellis Peters

  Nature, Spring, Contentment

  Ellis Peters (2014). “The Summer Of The Danes”, p.115, Head of Zeus

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• The world is full of fools; and he who would not wish to see one, must not only shut himself up alone, but must also break his looking-glass.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Break Up, Glasses, Fools Day

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• I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers:
  Of April, May, or June, and July flowers.
  I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes,
  Of bridegrooms, brides, and of the bridal cakes.

  Robert Herrick

  Spring, Flower, June

  Robert Herrick, John Donne (1948). “The Love Poems of Robert Herrick and John Donne”

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• Come, I come! ye have called me long,
  I come o'er the mountain with light and song:
  Ye may trace my step o'er the wakening earth,
  By the winds which tell of the violet's birth,
  By the primrose-stars in the shadowy grass,
  By the green leaves, opening as I pass.

  Felicia Hemans

  Song, Stars, Spring

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans (1853). “Poetical Works”, p.125

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• Flower in the crannied wall,
  I pluck you out of the crannies,
  I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,
  Little flower-but if I could understand
  What you are, root and all, all in all,
  I should know what God and man is.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature, Wall, Spring

  Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman (2010). “English Poetry III: Tennyson to Whitman: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. XLII (in 51 Volumes)”, p.1039, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee
  Calls back the lovely April of her prime...

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Art, Glasses

  Sonnet 3

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• Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

  Edward Carpenter

  Women, Mind, World

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