60+ March Quotes and Interesting Facts For a Peaceful Transition to Spring

March is a month of transition. Winter gloom gives way to springtime bloom not only in nature, but in ourselves. It’s the time when we begin to emerge from our collective hibernation and renew our appreciation for the beauty all around us, including in other people.

This past year has been a difficult one for many of us, and even as the future begins to look more promising, there remains a much uncertainty about what is to come.

To that end, we’ve collected 50 March quotes to welcome the new season and bring and inspire your continued happiness.

March Quotes to Welcome Spring

March’s birth flower is the daffodil. It’s all too appropriate that cheerful yellow flowers represent the first month of spring.― FTD

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

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

The first blooms of spring always make my heart sing. – S. Brown

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming. ― Pablo Neruda

You are reborn with the roses, in every spring. ― Juan Ramón Jiménez

A perfect spring day! Enjoy it while it lasts because you don’t know what’s coming. ― Marty Rubin

A wet March, a wet Spring. ― Unknown

A light exists in Spring, not present in the year at any other period when March is scarcely here. ― Emily Dickinson 

To welcome her the Spring breath’s forth Elysian sweets; March strews the earth with violets and posies. ― Edmund Waller

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

Funny March Quotes

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 Swift

February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March. — J.R. Stockton

April Fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly. — Ambrose Bierce

Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!” ― Robin Williams

March Quotes About Wind

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

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

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

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

Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn. — Lewis Grizzard

March bustles in on windy feet, and sweeps my doorstep and my street. ― Susan Reiner

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

March Quotes About Rain

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

As it rains in March so it rains in June. ― Unknown

After a certain age, time just drizzles down upon your head like rain in the month of March: you’re always surprised at how much of it can accumulate, and how fast. ― Elizabeth Gilbert

March Quotes About Winter

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

March, when days are getting long, Let thy growing hours be strong to set right some wintry wrong. — Caroline May

So many mists in March, so many frosts in May. ― Unknown

March Quotes About Transition

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

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

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

Where flowers bloom so does hope. ― Lady Bird Johnson 

March winds and April showers bring forth May flowers. ― English Proverb

A dry March and a wet May, fill barns and bays, with corn and hay. ― Unknown

February makes a bridge and March brakes it. — Witts Recreations

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

St. Patrick’s Day Quotes

Never iron a four-leaf clover because you don’t want to press your luck. — Unknown

St. Patrick’s Day is a day to celebrate our green heritage. The ancestry of Ireland. It is a day to celebrate what it means to be Irish and of Irish descent. — Anthony T. Hicksx

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting. — John Millington Synge

Be still and know that I am. Be still and know. Be still. Be. — St. Patrick

St. Patrick’s Day is an enchanted time—a day to begin transforming winter’s dreams into summer’s magic. — Adrienne Cook

Every St. Patrick’s Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to. — Shane Leslie

Yeah, it’s St. Paddy’s Day. Everyone’s Irish tonight. — Norman Reedus

For the whole world is Irish on the seventeenth o’ March! — Thomas Augustine Daly

May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light, may good luck pursue you each morning and night. — Irish Blessing

A good friend is like a four-leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have. — Irish Proverb

Lucky is believing you’re lucky. — Tennessee Williams

March Quotes From Poetry

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

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 of Expectation.
The things we do not know –
The Persons of prognostication
Are coming now.
― Emily Dickinson

Up from the sea, the wild north wind is blowing
Under the sky’s gray arch;
Smiling, I watch the shaken elm-boughs, knowing
It is the wind of March. 
— John Greenleaf Whittier

Saturday morning in late March.
I was alone and took a long walk…
Ice had broken up on the river
and the water rippled smoothly in blue light.
— Edward Hirsch

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

It is the first mild day of March:
Each minute sweeter than before…
There is a blessing in the air,
Which seems a sense of joy to yield
To the bare trees, and mountains bare,
And grass in the green field…
We from to-day, my Friend, will date
The opening of the year.
Love, now an universal birth,
From heart to heart is stealing,
From earth to man, from man to earth:
—It is the hour of feeling.
— William Wordsworth

If you wed when March winds blow,
Joy and sorrow both you’ll know. . .
Married when March winds shrill and roar,
Your home will lie on a distant shore.
― New Zealand Proverb

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

The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
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

Come to the pane, draw the curtain apart,
There she is passing, the girl of my heart…
Tresses all truant-like, curl upon curl,
Wind-blown and rosy, my little March girl.
― Laurence Dunbar

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 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

My worst job ever, this was when I was a kid, was picking potatoes on the back of a trailer in March. It was freezing, absolutely freezing… Once you do that for a day in March in the north of England, it makes you think there must be better jobs than this! ― Ben Miles

It was March. The days of March creeping gustily on like something that man couldn’t hinder and God wouldn’t hurry. ― Enid Bagnold

Song of Solomon 5:13: Lo, the flowery month is come! March winds and April showers have done their work, and the earth is all bedecked with beauty. ― Charles H. Spurgeon

Only those with tenacity can march forward in March. ― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

This is the perfume of March: rain, loam, feathers, mint. ― Lisa Kleypas

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

Boredom is… when the same naive flowers blossom again in the month of March. — Iwan Goll

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 comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. ― English Proverb

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

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

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

January grey is here,
Like a sexton by her grave;
February bears the bier,
March with grief doth howl and rave…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

I would I had some flowers o’ the spring that might
Become your time of day… daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,
But sweeter than the lids of Juno’s eyes…
O, these I lack,
To make you garlands of, and my sweet friend,
To strew him o’er and o’er!
— William Shakespeare

These, marching softly, thus in order went,
And after them, the Months all riding came;
First, sturdy March, with Brows full sternly bent,
And armed strongly, rode upon a Ram,
The same which over Hellespontus swam:
Yet in his Hand a Spade he also hent,
And in a Bag all sorts of Seeds ysame,
Which on the Earth he strowed as he went,
And fill’d her Womb with fruitful Hope of Nourishment.
— Edmund Spenser

Interesting Facts About March

In the Northern Hemisphere, March is the first month of Spring, which begins on March 20th.

March and November begin on the same day of the week every year. March and June end on the same day of the week every year.

Statistics show that March is the least productive month of the year for US workers due to the NCAA March Madness tournament. It’s estimated that up to $1.9 billion is lost every year in wages due to working time spent keeping up with the games.

The first ever phone call was placed in March. On March 10, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell placed the historic call to his assistant, saying simply, “Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.”

The Peace Corps was founded by President John F. Kennedy on March 1, 1961.

The daffodil is the birth flower of March.

March is home to two zodiac signs: Pisces (until and including March 19) and Aries (starting March 20).

March also has two birthstones: aquamarine and bloodstone. Both represent bravery.

Julius Caesar was assassinated on the “Ides of March” (March 15). In Roman society, this date was the deadline for settling unpaid debts.

March was the first month of the year in the 10-month Roman calendar.

March is Women’s History Month in the US, UK, and Australia. It is National Nutrition Month in Canada.

March, like our neighbor planet, is named after Mars, the Roman god of war.