March Quotes

• A light exists in Spring
  Not present in the year
  at any other period
  When March is scarcely here.

  Emily Dickinson

  Spring, Light, Years

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1084, Delphi Classics

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• It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

  Charles Dickens

  Summer, Nature, Spring

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Great Expectations: Classic English Literature”, p.394, 谷月社

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• Daffodils,
  That come before the swallow dares, and take
  The winds of March with beauty.

  William Shakespeare

  Spring, Flower, Wind

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 3, l. 116

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• March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes and a laugh in her voice.

  Hal Borland

  Spring, Hair, Shoes

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• Life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Weather, Savages

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.94

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• March 4th, the only day that is also a sentence

  John Green

  Sentences

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• With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!

  Bayard Taylor

  Children, Spring, Dark

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.408

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• There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

  George Santayana

  Love, Positive, Happiness

  George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.1053, The Floating Press

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• Love is not a victory march

  Leonard Cohen

  Life, Love Is, Victory

  Song: Hallelujah

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• Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

  Doug Larson

  Nature, Spring, Groundhog Day

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• What's good about March? Well, for one thing, it keeps February and April apart.

  Walt Kelly

  April, February, Wells

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• March is a month of considerable frustration - it is so near spring and yet across a great deal of the country the weather is still so violent and changeable that outdoor activity in our yards seems light years away.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Country, Spring, Frustration

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• Truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.

  Emile Zola

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  "J'accuse! (I Accuse!)". Open letter to French President Félix Faure, published in "L'Aurore" [The Dawn], January 13, 1898.

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• March is the month God created to show people who don't drink what a hangover is like.

  Garrison Keillor

  Hangover, People, Months

  Garrison Keillor (1998). “Wobegon Boy”, p.147, Penguin

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• March is the month of expectation,
  The things we do not know,
  The Persons of Prognostication
  Are coming now.
  We try to sham becoming firmness,
  But pompous joy
  Betrays us, as his first betrothal
  Betrays a boy.

  Emily Dickinson

  Spring, Boys, Expectations

  Emily Dickinson (1915). “The Single Hound: Poems of a Lifetime”

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• The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You're one month on in the middle of May. But if you so much as dare to speak, a cloud come over the sunlit arch, And wind comes off a frozen peak, And you're two months back in the middle of March.

  Robert Frost

  Spring, Clouds, Wind

  Robert Frost (1977). “North of Boston: poems”, Dodd Mead

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• Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Fans, May

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1949, Delphi Classics

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• One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

  Aldo Leopold

  Summer, Spring, Doe

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.18, Oxford University Press, USA

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• No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.

  Charles Stewart Parnell

  Country, Men, Boundaries

  Speech, Cork, Ireland, 21 Jan. 1885

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• Tis now the twenty-third of march,
  And this warm sun takes out the starch
  Of winter's pinafore -
  Methinks The Very pasture gladly drinks
  A health to spring, and while it sips
  It faintly smacks a myriad lips.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Winter, Twenties

  Elizabeth Hall Witherell, Henry David Thoreau (1979). “The Poetry of Henry David Thoreau: A Selected Critical Edition”

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• Like an army defeated the snow hath retreated.

  William Wordsworth

  War, Army, Snow

  William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth (1815). “Poems by William Wordsworth: Including Lyrical Ballads, and the Miscellaneous Pieces of the Author”, p.9

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• Tourism is the march of stupidity.

  Don DeLillo

  Stupidity, Tourism

  1982 James Axton. The Names, ch.3.

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• Here at CBS, spring also means March Madness. I love the name March Madness. I'm glad the PC police haven't made us change March Madness to early spring psychosis.

  Craig Ferguson

  Spring, Mean, Psychosis

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• A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

  Emily Dickinson

  Kings, Spring, Insanity

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1613, Delphi Classics

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