Quotes About March

Walking the bridge to another season

Winter is still holding on for dear life when the month begins, but by the time it ends, we see milder and warmer days ahead. These quotes are about March, the bridge that leaves winter behind and helps us to spring ahead.

1. “March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes, and a laugh in her voice.” -Hal Borland

2. “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

3. “March is an example of how beautiful new beginnings can be.” -Anamika Mishra

4. “December days were brief and chill, The winds of March were wild and drear, And, nearing and receding still, Spring never would, we thought, be here.” -Arthur Hugh Clough

5. “One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.” -Aldo Leopold

6. “March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight, which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.” -L.M. Montgomery

7. “Daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty.” -William Shakespeare

8. “Flowers and colours everywhere, I am so glad that March is here.” -Anamika Mishra

9. “Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour. We go forth austere, dedicated, believing in the iron links of Destiny, and will not turn on our heel to save our life: but a book, or a bust, or only the sound of a name, shoots a spark through the nerves, and we suddenly believe in will….” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. “March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans. There is no such thing as a ‘gentleman gambler’ when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely….There are no rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.” -Hunter S. Thompson

11. “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

12. “In March, winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too.” -Jean Hersey

13. “That’s the trouble with March — the warmth never lasts. There’s that narrow stretch when it parades as spring, just enough for you to thaw if you’re sitting in the sun, but then it’s gone.” -V.E. Schwab

14. “March with grief doth howl and rave….” -Percy Bysshe Shelley

15. “I am never at my best in the early morning, especially a cold morning in the Yorkshire spring with a piercing March wind sweeping down from the fells, finding its way inside my clothing, nipping at my nose and ears.” -James Herriot

16. “My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again.” -Tracy Chevalier

17. “March is the month God created to show people who don’t drink what a hangover is like.” -Garrison Keillor

18. “By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run, and the world would wake into itself again.” -Neil Gaiman

19. “It was the end of March and, even though the weather hadn’t warmed noticeably at this elevation, the winter buds had begun to swell on the oaks, giving them the quality of knots in fine lace against the gray overcast.” -James G. Brown

20. “April Fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.” -Ambrose Bierce

21. “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

22. “In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground.” -John Steinbeck

23. “Now when the primrose makes a splendid show, And lilies face the March-winds in full blow, And humbler growths as moved with one desire Put on, to welcome spring, their best attire….” -William Wordsworth

24. “The stormy March has come at last, With winds and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies.” -William C. Bryant

25. “As it rains in March so it rains in June.” -Unknown

26. “After a hot March comes April!” -Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

27. “And so by degrees the winter wore away…and the chill, bitter, windy, early spring came round. The comic almanacks give us dreadful pictures of January and February; but, in truth, the months which should be made to look gloomy in England are March and April. Let no man boast himself that he has got through the perils of winter till at least the seventh of May.” -Anthony Trollope

28. “March brings breezes loud and shrill, Stirs the dancing daffodil….” -Sara Coleridge

29. “March, master of winds, bright minstrel and marshal of storms that enkindle the season they smite.” -Algernon C. Swinburne

30. “So many mists in March, so many frosts in May.” -Unknown

31. “March so fickle, March so fair, Pouting, shy, with wind-blown hair, Nut-brown shawl and crocus cup, Smile that lights the whole world up.” -Sara L. Vickers Oberholtzer

32. “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

33. “Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.” -Elizabeth Bowen

34. “The March wind roars, Like a lion in the sky, And makes us shiver, As he passes by.” -Unknown

35. “Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.” -Lewis Grizzard

36. “March, when days are getting long, Let thy growing hours be strong To set right some wintry wrong.” -Caroline May

37. “March bustles in on windy feet, and sweeps my doorstep and my street.” -Susan Reiner

38. “A windy March is lucky. Every pint of March dust brings a peck of September corn, and a pound of October cotton.” -Julia Peterkin

39. “A cloud comes over the sunlit arch, a wind comes off a frozen peak, and you’re two months back in the middle of March.” -Robert Frost

40. “Winds of March, we welcome you, there is work for you to do. Work and play and blow all day, blow the winter wind away.” -Unknown

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