April Quotes

• Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.

  Thomas Sowell

  Income, Might, Pay

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• Winter's done, and April's in the skies,
  Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes!

  Charles G.D. Roberts

  Laughter, Spring, Eye

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• Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Success, Carpe Diem

  Following the Equator (1897) ch. 28

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• No Winter lasts forever, no Spring skips its turn. April is a promise that May is bound to keep, and we know it.

  Hal Borland

  Spring, Winter, Garden

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• April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Angel, Years, Young Love

  Vita Sackville-West, Victoria Sackville-West (2004). “The Garden”, Frances Lincoln Limited

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• Plunge into the deep without fear, with the gladness of April in your heart.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Heart, Plunge, Gladness

  Rabindranath Tagore (1949). “Collected poems and plays of Rabindranath Tagore”

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• Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

  Charles Lamb

  Funny Inspirational, Spring, Fools Day

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• I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.

  Langston Hughes

  Morning, Spring, Bangs

  Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.110, University of Missouri Press

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• April is a promise of what's to come.

  Gladys Taber

  Promise

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• Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

  Thomas Tusser

  Sweet, Spring, Flower

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• Flower god, god of the spring, beautiful, bountiful,
  Cold-dyed shield in the sky, lover of versicles,
  Here I wander in April
  Cold, grey-headed; and still to my
  Heart, Spring comes with a bound, Spring the deliverer,
  Spring, song-leader in woods, chorally resonant;
  Spring, flower-planter in meadows,
  Child-conductor in willowy
  Fields deep dotted with bloom, daisies and crocuses:
  Here that child from his heart drinks of eternity:
  O child, happy are children!

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Beautiful, Song, Children

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “New Poems and Variant Readings”, p.87, Read Books Ltd

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• The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

  Winston Churchill

  Life, Leadership, Motivation

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• Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

  Sacha Guitry

  Foolish, April Fools, April Fools Day

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• The sweet small clumsy feet of april came into the ragged meadow of my soul.

  e. e. cummings

  Sweet, Feet, Soul

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.29, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• April's rare capricious loveliness.

  Julia Caroline Dorr

  Spring, Capricious, Loveliness

  Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr (1872). “Poems”, p.67

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• April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Spring, Garden

  Sonnet 98

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• Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expect a kiss.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Kissing, Snow, Faces

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2013). “The Anne of Green Gables Chronicles (Annotated Edition)”, p.1372, Jazzybee Verlag

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• April brings the primrose sweet, / Scatters daisies at our feet.

  Sara Coleridge

  Sweet, Feet, Daisies

  Sara Coleridge (1839). “Pretty lessons in verse, for good children; with some lessons in Latin in easy rhyme”, p.7

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• It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.

  Max Eastman

  Happiness, Funny Inspirational, Humor

  Max Eastman (2008). “Enjoyment of Laughter”, p.36, Transaction Publishers

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• What delights us in the spring is more a sensation than an appearance, more a hope than any visible reality. There is something in the softness of the air, in the lengthening of the days, in the very sounds and odors of the sweet time, that caresses us and consoles us after the rigorous weeks of winter.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Sweet, Spring, Winter

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1882). “The Sylvan Year: Leaves from the Note Book of Roaul Dubois. [Also The Unknown River. An Etcher's Voyage of Discovery]”

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• April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Humorous, Fools Day

  Pudd'nhead Wilson ch. 21, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" (1894)

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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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• There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by.

  William C. Bryant

  Stars, Eye, Joy

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• Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves opening stickily. I know what I know. The sun is hot on my neck as I observe The spikes of the crocus. The smell of the earth is good. It is apparent that there is no death. But what does that signify? Not only under ground are the brains of men Eaten by maggots. Life in itself Is nothing, An empty cup, a flight of uncarpeted stairs. It is not enough that yearly, down this hill, April Comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Spring, Flower, Men

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2009). “Second April: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• How many million Aprils came before I ever knew how white a cherry bough could be, a bed of squills, how blue And many a dancing April when life is done with me, will lift the blue flame of the flower and the white flame of the tree Oh burn me with your beauty then, oh hurt me tree and flower, lest in the end death try to take even this glistening hour.

  Sara Teasdale

  Hurt, Spring, Flower

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.1, Рипол Классик

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