March quotes

Whan that Aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of March hath perced to the roote.

- Geoffrey Chaucer
  Canterbury  Tales,'General Prologue', l.1^2.

Tourism is the march of stupidity.

- Don DeLillo
  James  Axton. The Names, ch.3.

March is the month that God designed to show those who don't drink what a hangover is like.

- (Gary Edward) Garrison Keillor
  In NPR broadcast,1 Dec.

Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke-stack, Butting through the Channel in the mad March days.

-John Edward Masefield
  'Cargoes'.

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation. No man has a right to say to his country,'Thus far thou shalt go and no further.'

- Charles Stewart Parnell
  Speech, Cork, 21 Jan.

   In a march of onlya few hours, I had passed from the western to the eastern hemisphere and had verified my position at the summit of the world.It was hard to realise that on the first miles of the brief march we had been travelling due north, while on the last few miles of the same march we had been travelling due south, although we had all the time been travelling precisely in the same direction.

- Robert Edwin Peary
  Description of crossing and then passing the Pole. The North Pole (published1910).

The march of intellect.

- Robert Southey
  Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society, no.14.

First, sturdy March with brows full sternly bent, And arme'  d 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 strowe'  d as he went, And filled her womb with fruitful hope of nourishment.

- Edmund Spenser
  The Faerie Queen,'Mutability', canto 7, stanza 32. hent = grasped; ysame = together.

'Tis not your work, but Love's. Love, unperceived, A more ideal Artist he than all, Came, drew your pencil from you, made those eyes Darker than the darkest pansies, and that hair More black than ashbuds in the front of March.

-Tennyson
  Poems,'The Gardener's Daughter', l.24^8.