78 April Quotes to Welcome Spring’s Magic
April brings blooming flowers, rainy days, and a fresh start, which is why we’ve gathered all the best April quotes to welcome the month.
And if you’re looking for short April sayings for Instagram, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Our Favorite April Quotes
“It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.” George Orwell
“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
“With the coming of spring, I am calm again.” Gustav Mahler
“Now the noisy winds are still / April’s coming up the hill / All the spring is in her train / Led by shining ranks of rain / Pit, pat, patter, clatter / Sudden sun and clatter patter / All things ready with a will / April’s coming up the hill!” Mary Mapes Dodge
“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 Cullen Bryant
“Oh to be in England now that April’s there.” Robert Browning
“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.” Robert Frost
“April is, by universal consent, admitted to be the month of ‘fools’.” Joseph Grimaldi
“April will not fail to turn out as it should be, and as it generally is, one of the sweetest, dearest, loveliest months of the year.” Joseph Grimaldi
“Yes, April is a lovely, soul-inspiring, life-invigorating month.” Joseph Grimaldi
“We can’t possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name’s become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.” F. Scott Fitzgerald
“They came on one of April’s most brilliant days–a day as sparkling as a newly-washed lemon…a day when even the shadows were a melange of blue and orange and jade, like the shadows that poured from the tipsy brush of Monet.” Beverley Nichols
“April is the kindest month. April gets you out of your head and out working in the garden.” Marty Rubin
“But it is a sort of April-weather life that we lead in this world. A little sunshine is generally the prelude to a storm.” William Cowper
“You spend so much time hating the fact that April behaves more like a mother than a sister, but you’re the one who’s holding onto the apron strings every time she tries to cut them.” Nicola Sinclair
“The tantalizing scent transported me to a white, sandy beach lapped by a turquoise sea under a tropical sun. Lime and coconut were the getaway flavors my bakery customers needed in April, tax time.” Judith Fertig
“Again the blackbirds sings; the streams / Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams, / And tremble in the April showers / The tassels of the maple flowers.” John Greenleaf Whittier
“April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.” E. Y. Harburg
“It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation sign Aries or Leo, its home, for then we enter the sea of life on the crest-wave and are backed in the battle of existence by an abundant fund of vim and energy.” Max Heindel
“In April, the first soft, tender, delicate green of spring salutes the eye in every direction.” Joseph Grimaldi
“April is a month of melody. In April, you can hear the warbling of mockingbirds and the chattering of squirrels.” Ellen Jackson
“April is courtship time for many animals.” Ellen Jackson
“How the rain showers come in the month of April, bringing nourishment to the flowers so they can bloom in the spring.” David C. Reyes
“The coming of April heralds the time to plant seeds of magic and fill the heart and home with the joy of light and life.” Lotuswulf Satyrhorn
“The month of April often brings the rains needed to stimulate growth in the earth and fertility is reaching for its peak.” Lotuswulf Satyrhorn
“April is a time of growth, magic and joy for the otherkin coven.” Lotuswulf Satyrhorn
“Spring is in the air, certainly in this merry month of April, and with April showers, there are May flowers.” Summer Bacon
“It dances like water in the stream, my dear friends, the water of April showers that bring the May flowers of your soul to life.” Summer Bacon
“You will feel the intoxication if you live life very consciously in this beautiful, merry month of April.” Summer Bacon
“April showers could bring a cold winter mood when it poured. Then when it was gone, it wasn’t warm or cold, but stayed in a residual flavor of both.” R. Lupi
“April marks the real end of winter. Daffodils pop open and nod their yellow heads. Grass starts to recover from its frozen cover of snow, trees bud, forsythia shows its yellow cloak, tulips display their lips, and the animals–chipmunks, squirrels, rabbits and other animals–wake up from their winter sleep.” Sharon Leah
“Rain soaks the earth, prompting growth and preparing the flowers of the season. And we find ourselves shedding our winter coats on the first warm spring day. This is April!” Sharon Leah
“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
“Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.” Charles Lamb
“Some people can’t be fooled on April Fool’s Day because they were fooled too many times during their entire lifetime.” Akash B Chandran
“April showers bring forth May flowers.” Proverb
“Sweet April showers Do bring May flowers.” Thomas Tusser
“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” William Shakespeare
“Oh, the lovely fickleness of an April day!” W. H. Gibson
“The April winds are magical, And thrill our tuneful frames; The garden-walks are passional To bachelors and dames.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“April fool, n. The March fool with another month added to his folly.” Ambrose Bierce
“Sweet April’s tears, Dead on the hem of May.” Alexander Smith
“If April showers should come your way, they bring the flowers that bloom in May.” Buddy de Sylva
“Why are people so tired on April 1st? Because they just finished a 31-day March.” unknown
“April Fools gone past, and you’re the biggest fool at last.” unknown
“The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.” Mark Twain
“April comes like an idiot, babbling and stewing flowers.” Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Our spring has come at last with the soft laughter of April suns and shadow of April showers.” Byron Caldwell Smith
“I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.” Marilyn Monroe
“I have seen the Lady April bringing the daffodils, Bringing the springing grass and the soft warm April rain.” John Masefield
“Winter’s done, and April’s in the skies, Earth, look up with laughter in your eyes!” Charles G. D. Roberts
“It’s the hottest April in living and dead memory. So hot that the crows are flying with their tongues hanging out of their heads.” Jess Kidd
“April’s rare capricious loveliness.” Julia Dorr
“The children were nestling like shivering pigeons in April.” Unknown
“When April winds Grew soft, the maple burst into a flush Of scarlet flowers. The tulip tree, high up, Opened in airs of June her multitude Of golden chalices to humming-birds And silken-wing’d insects of the sky.” William Cullen Bryant
“The tantalizing thing about April is that anything is possible, meteorologically speaking — a 70-degree day can be followed by a 32-degree day with snow.” Unknown
“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
“Sweet April-time—O cruel April-time! Year after year returning, with a brow Of promise, and red lips with longing pale, And backward hidden hands that clutch the snows.” Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
“April this year, not otherwise Than April of a year ago, Is full of whispers, full of sighs, Of dazzling mud and dingy snow; Hepaticas that pleased you so Are here again.” Edna St. Vincent Millay
“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.” William Shakespeare
“Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its golden armor of April showers.” Virgil
“Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.” Thomas Carlyle
“Her laughter sounded like April showers, like whispered secrets, like glass wind-chimes.” Rebecca McNutt
“The April’s in her eyes: it is love’s spring, And these the showers to bring it on.” William Shakespeare
“An April flood means abundance of grass, abundance of grass means an abundance of beef, abundance of beef means abundance of manure, abundance of manure means abundance of crops next year.” Unknown
“For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,— Weeps like a tired child who had, Playing with flowers, lost its way.” Helen Hunt Jackson
“Who would not bloom amid the richness of April?” Unknown
“Old April wanes, and her last dewy morning Is fading like a dream from the sight; Like the glow of a sweet girl adorning, When love has taken flight.” Unknown
Inspiring April Month Quotes
“I smile, of course, And go on drinking tea, Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the Spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful, after all.” Henry James
“April, April, laugh thy girlish laughter, and the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears, April.” Angus Wilson
“It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” Rainer Maria Rilke
“Snow in April is abominable,” said Anne. “Like a slap in the face when you expected a kiss.” L.M. Montgomery, “Anne of Ingleside”
“I had not thought of violets of late, The wild, shy kind that springs beneath your feet, In wistful April days.” Alice Dunbar-Nelson
“Today has been a day dropped out of June into April.” L.M. Montgomery, “Anne of Windy Poplars”
“The most beautiful springs are those that come after the most horrible winters!” Mehmet Murat ildan
“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
“In the suburbs of Delaware, spring meant not young love and damp flowers but an ugly divorce from winter and a second marriage to buxom summer.” Andrew Sean Greer
“Although I was born in April, I’m quite certain I was not fully awake until October.” Peggy Toney Horton
