March, the third month of the year, is the beginning of spring in the northern half of the world. Named after Mars, the Roman god of war, March was initially regarded as the start of the New Year in Europe. In fact, the 25th of March was used as the beginning of the New Year in Britain up until 1752.
In this article, we’ve rounded up a list of 100 quotes about March to inspire you.
Funny March Quotes
“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
“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
“March is the month God created to show people who don’t drink what a hangover is like.”
Garrison Keillor
“POOR MARCH. It is the HOMELIEST month of the year. Most of it is MUD, every imaginable form of MUD, and what isn’t MUD in March is ugly late-season SNOW falling onto the ground in filthy muddy heaps that look like PILES of DIRTY LAUNDRY. “
Vivian Swif
“March Madness is an incredible three weeks. I firmly believe it’s the greatest three weeks in sports. You have the Super Bowl; you have the World Series.”
Dick Vitale
“How terrible a time is the beginning of March. In a month there will be daffodils and the sudden blossoming of orchards, but you wouldn’t know it now. You have to take spring on blind faith.”
Beatriz Williams
“March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes and a laugh in her voice.”
Hal Borland
“March Madness brings April Sadness.”
Unknown
“I like college football, but I’m a huge college basketball fan. I could sit and watch every game of March Madness and be happy. That could be a vacation.”
Lewis Black
“March Madness (n.).” “What your wife gets when you pay more attention to ESPN and your brackets than her.”
Unknown
March Quotes for Work
“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
“Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk.”
Marge Piercy
“Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.”
Robert H. Schuller
“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
“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
“Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of his instruments, not the composer.”
Geoffrey Charlesworth
“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
“One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.”
Aldo Leopold
“In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.”
Henry Rollins
“March, master of winds, bright minstrel and marshal of storms that enkindle the season they smite.”
Algernon C. Swinburne
“They captured in their ramble all the mysteries and magics of a March evening.”
L.M. Montgomery
March Quotes for Love
“Daffodils, that come before the swallow dares, and take. The winds of March with beauty.”
William Shakespeare
“In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish’d dove; In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Rare as is true love; true friendship is rarer.”
Jean de La Fontaine
“True love can triumph within the end—which could or might not be a lie, but if it is a lie, it’s the most beautiful lie we have.”
John Green
“Today is the day when bold kites fly, when cumulus clouds roar across the sky. When robins return, when children cheer, when light rain beckons spring to appear.”
Robert McCracken
“The beautiful spring came, and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.”
Harriet Ann Jacobs
March Quotes for Life
“Boredom is . . . when the same naive flowers blossom again in the month of March.”
Iwan Goll
“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
“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
“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
“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”
Susan J. Bissonette
“The beautiful spring came, and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.”
Harriet Ann Jacobs
“This is the perfume of March: rain, loam, feathers, mint.”
Lisa Kleypas
“The first blooms of spring always make my heart sing.”
S. Brown
“If there were no, cherry blossoms, in this world, how much more tranquil our hearts would be in spring.”
Ariwara no Narihira
“Spring comes: the flowers learn their colored shapes.”
Maria Konopnicka
“March is an example of how beautiful new beginnings can be.”
Anamika Mishra
“Blossom by blossom the spring begins.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne
“Look at the cherry blossoms! Their color and scent fall with them, are gone forever, yet mindless, the spring comes again.”
Ikkyu
“Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.”
Lewis Grizzard
“Where did Gabriel get a lily, in the month of March, when the green is hardly seen on the early larch?”
Grace James
“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
“As through the poplar’s gusty spire, the March wind sweeps and sings, I sit beside the hollow fire, and dream familiar things; Old memories wake, faint echoes make a murmur of dead Springs…“
Chambers’s Journal of Popular Literature
“March with grief doth howl and rave…”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“March is blustery and boisterous, never quiet nor inert, swaggers in and out with gusto — March is just an extravert.”
Thelma Ireland
“I have said that there was great pleasure in watching the ways in which different plants come through the ground, and February and March are the months in which that can best be seen.”
Henry N. Ellacombe
“Earthquakes mean March. . . The sun of this month cures all. Therefore, old women say: Let the sun of March shine on my daughter but let the sun of February shine on my daughter-in-law.”
Anne Sexton
“An optimist is the human personification of spring.”
Susan J. Bissonette
“No one’s gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.”
Earl Weaver
Born in March Quotes
“You are reborn with the roses, in every spring.”
Juan Ramón Jiménez
“A man was born on March, and he himself did not know it – By his birth forever he won the victory!”
Unknown
“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
Hello March Quotes
“It was the second week in March . . . The magnolia trees had already bloomed, and tulips, daffodils, and wildflowers were shooting up all around the convent’s gardens.”
Rosanna Chiofalo
“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
“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
“March brings breezes loud and shrill, stirs the dancing daffodil.”
Sara Coleridge
“March is here. It reminds me of sports day at school, 3rd March, full day on the field.“
Faraz
“March’s birth flower is the daffodil. It’s all too appropriate that cheerful yellow flowers represent the first month of spring.”
FTD
“Flowers and colors everywhere, I am so glad that March is here.”
Anamika Mishra
“To welcome her the Spring breath’s forth Elysian sweets; March strews the Earth With violets and posies.”
Edmund Waller
“A light exists in Spring, not present in the year at any other period when March is scarcely here.”
Emily Dickinson
“Hello March! Bring love & happiness in our lives.”
Unknown
March Blessings
“It was March. The days of March creeping gustily on like something that man couldn’t hinder and God wouldn’t hurry.”
Enid Bagnold
“Where flowers bloom so does hope.”
Lady Bird Johnson
“March is the month to get serious. Be serious about your health, relationship, plans, wellbeing, and yourself.”
Unknown
“March bustles in on windy feet and sweeps my doorstep and my street.”
Susan Reiner
“The day before April
Alone, alone, I walked in the woods
And I sat on a stone. I sat on a broad stone
And sang to the birds. The tune was God’s making
But I made the words.”
Mary Carolyn Davies
Inspirational March Quotes
“In March the soft rains continued, and each storm waited courteously until its predecessor sunk beneath the ground.”
John Steinbeck
“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
“Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer.”
Anita Krizzan
“A windy March is lucky. Every pint of March dust brings a peck of September corn, and a pound of October cotton.”
Julia Peterkin
“Every cold and dark phase end and hence begins a beautiful phase of warmth and vibrance. Don’t believe? Just notice March.”
Anamika Mishra
“March bustles in on windy feet and sweeps my doorstep and my street.”
Susan Reiner
“Only those with tenacity can march forward in March.”
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“Match the right things in March.”
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.”
English Proverb
“March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers.”
English Proverb
“You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
Pablo Neruda
“In March winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too.”
Jean Hersey
“A perfect spring day! Enjoy it while it lasts because you don’t know what’s coming.”
Marty Rubin
“March, when days are getting long, let thy growing hours be strong to set right some wintry wrong.”
Caroline May
“Despite March’s windy reputation, winter isn’t really blown away; it is washed away. It flows down all the hills, goes swirling down the valleys and spills out to sea. Like so many of this earth’s elements, winter itself is soluble in water… It is a wet world, winter’s harsh grip beginning to relax… An outcropping ledge on the hillside sheds its beard of icicles and becomes a seep spring that drips into a shallow pool that feeds a growing runlet.”
The New York Times
“March, master of winds, bright minstrel and marshal of storms that enkindle the season they smite.”
Algernon C Swinburne
“Autumn arrives in the early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.”
Elizabeth Bowen
“The seventeenth of March. In other words, spring. . . I mean those in the height of fashion, women or men – can they afford to wait any longer before buying their spring wardrobes?”
Colette
“March is that month where you need your full wardrobe as day to day you don’t know if you need your winter hat or your shorts…”
Unknown
“There’s joy in the mountains; there’s life in the fountains; small clouds are sailing, blue sky prevailing; the rain is over and gone!”
William Wordsworth
“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
“March so fickle, March so fair, pouting, shy, with wind-blown hair, nut-brown shawl and crocus cup, smile those lights the whole world up.”
Sara L. Vickers Oberholtzer
“So many mists in March, so many frosts in May.”
German Proverb
“Believe in yourself because every February gust is followed by a March spring.”
Unknown
“March gives a perfect message to hold on and never give up because spring will come, and life will get warmer.”
Unknown
“Spring comes: the flowers learn their colored shapes.”
Maria Konopnicka
“The beautiful spring came, and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.”
Harriet Ann Jacobs
“When March goes on forever, and April’s twice as long, who gives a damn if spring has come, As long as winter’s gone.”
R. L. Ruzicka
“February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March.”
J.R. Stockton
“Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.”
John Muir
“It is a beautiful March morning. […] Eternally fresh, eternally hopeful, always ingenuous.”
Kate Morton
Wrapping Up
March is the beginning of Spring and the month of March Madness. As the month comes to a close, let’s remember to always appreciate the good moments and savor every minute and every day of them. If you already enjoy March, we hope these quotes motivated and inspired you to love it even more!
