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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• 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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• 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 is a promise of what's to come.

  Gladys Taber

  Promise

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

  William Shakespeare

  Nature, Spring, Garden

  Sonnet 98

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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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• Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

  Thomas Tusser

  Sweet, Spring, Flower

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• April is the cruellest month.

  T. S. Eliot

  Months, Classic

  The Waste Land l. 1 (1922)

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• I have seen the Lady April bringing
  the daffodils,
  Bringing the springing grass and the
  soft warm April rain.

  John Masefield

  Spring, Rain, Grass

  John Masefield (1923). “The Collected Poems”

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• A gush of bird song, a patter of dew
  A cloud and a rainbow's warning;
  Suddenly sunshine and perfect blue
  An April day in the morning!

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford

  Song, Morning, Spring

  Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1882). “Poems”

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• April is a promise that May is bound to keep.

  Hal Borland

  Spring, Keeping Promises, May

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• April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.

  Christopher Morley

  Easter, Spring, Thinking

  Christopher Morley (1931). “John Mistletoe”, Doubleday, Doran

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• Every tear is answered by a blossom, Every sigh with songs and laughter blent, April-blooms upon the breezes toss them. April knows her own, and is content.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Song, Laughter, Flower

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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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• April's rare capricious loveliness.

  Julia Caroline Dorr

  Spring, Capricious, Loveliness

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

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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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• 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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• A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

  William Blake

  Wise, Photography, Teaching

  'The Marriage of Heaven and Hell' (1790-3) 'Proverbs of Hell'

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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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• Today is April 1, April Fools' Day, a day that people try to fool their friends and relatives. Don't confuse that with April 15, when people try to fool the IRS.

  Jay Leno

  Fools Day, People, Trying

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• April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

  T. S. Eliot

  Memories, Spring, Rain

  The Waste Land l. 1 (1922)

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