These February quotes will inspire you. February is the second month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. The month has 28 days in common years or 29 in leap years, with the 29th day being called the leap day.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, knowledgeable and encouraging February quotes, February sayings, and February proverbs.
Best February Quotes
- “Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.” ~ Pietro Aretino
- “While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch.” ~ Patience Strong
- “If January is the month of change, February is the month of lasting change. January is for dreamers… February is for doers -” ~ Marc Parent
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“Every mile is two in winter” ~ George Herbert
- “February… Bending from Heaven, in azure mirth, It kissed the forehead of the Earth, And smiled upon the silent sea, And bade the frozen streams be free, And waked to music all their fountains, And breathed upon the frozen mountains.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
- “There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming summer.” ~ Gertrude Jekyll, February quotes summer
- “Why, what’s the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?” ~ William Shakespeare
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“In February there is everything to hope for and nothing to regret.” ~ Patience Strong
- “In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other.” ~ Linda Ellerbee
- “Late February days; and now, at last,
Might you have thought that
Winter’s woe was past;
So fair the sky was and so soft the air.” ~ William Morris - “January cold and desolate; February dripping wet; March wind ranges; April changes; Birds sing in tune To flowers of May, And sunny June Brings longest day; In scorched July The storm-clouds fly, Lightning-torn;
August bears corn, September fruit; In rough October Earth must disrobe her; Stars fall and shoot
In keen November; And night is long And cold is strongIn bleak December.” ~ Christina Rossetti -
“February is the uncertain month, neither black nor white but all shades between by turns. Nothing is sure.” ~ Gladys Hasty Carroll
- “the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day.” ~ Katherine Paterson
- “Surely as cometh the Winter, I know
There are Spring violets under the snow.” ~ Robert Henry Newell - “Wan February with weeping cheer,
Whose cold hand guides the youngling year
Down misty roads of mire and rime,
Before thy pale and fitful face
The shrill wind shifts the clouds apace
Through skies the morning scarce may climb.
Thine eyes are thick with heavy tears,
But lit with hopes that light the year’s.” ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne -
“Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse – except August.” ~ Katherine Paterson
- “In tangled wreath, in clustered gleaming stars,
In floating, curling sprays,
The golden flower comes shining though the woods
These February days;
Forth go all hearts, all hands, from out the town,
To bring her gayly in,
This wild, sweet Princess of far Florida –
The yellow jessamine.” ~ Constance Fenimore Woolson - “Without Valentine’s Day, February would be… well, January.” ~ Jim Gaffigan
- “February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.” ~ Shirley Jackson
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“The last time when I handed over information was in February or March 1949.” ~ Klaus Fuchs
- “Even winter — the hardest season, the most implacable — dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself.” ~ Clive Barker
- “February… Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or – as the puritanical old saying used to have it – to kill time until it kills you.” ~ Joseph Wood Krutch
- “February dawn — frost on the path Where I paced all winter.” ~ Jack Kerouac, February quotes dawn
- “The book the Ziff folks sent me as an example of their art was ‘Late Night VRML 2.0 with Java,’ 700 pages + CD-ROM, published February 1997. I was personally acquainted with more movie stars than people who might conceivably have wanted to buy this book or any book like it.” ~ Philip Greenspun
- “I stood beside a hill
Smooth with new-laid snow,
A single star looked out
From the cold evening glow.
There was not other creature
That saw what I could see,
I stood and watched the evening star
As long as it watched me.” ~ Sara Teasdale -
“February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.” ~ Katherine Paterson
- “Still lie the sheltering snows, undimmed and white;
And reigns the winter’s pregnant silence still;
No sign of spring, save that the catkins fill,
And willow stems grow daily red and bright.
These are days when ancients held a rite
Of expiation for the old year’s ill,
And prayer to purify the new year’s will.” ~ Helen Hunt Jackson - “Most people, early in November, take last looks at their gardens, are then prepared to ignore them until the spring. I am quite sure that a garden doesn’t like to be ignored like this. It doesn’t like to be covered in dust sheets, as though it were an old room which you had shut up during the winter. Especially since a garden knows how gay and delightful it can be, even in the very frozen heart of the winter, if you only give it a chance.” ~ Beverley Nichols
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“I was born February 20, 1937, in Munchen as the first child of Sebastian and Helene Huber.” ~ Robert Huber
- “In February 2003, I signed a three-year contract with MSNBC to host a talk show. Having recently decided not to run again for governor of Minnesota, I was still a pretty hot commodity. The show was originally scheduled for an hour, four nights a week.” ~ Jesse Ventura
- “I’ve been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it’s just whining, but every so often there’ll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It’s an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. ‘That’s not what you said on February 3, 1996,’ I’ll say to someone.” ~ David Sedaris
- “I’m 58 years old and I just went through 8 back surgeries. They started cutting on me in February 2009, and I was basically bedridden for almost two years. I got a real dose of reality that if you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything.” ~ Hulk Hogan
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“The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.” ~ William C. Bryant
- “I miss everything about Chicago, except January and February.” ~ Gary Cole
- “In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level.” ~ Pepper Schwartz
- “The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February… Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar.” ~ Joseph Wood Krutch , February quotes for calendars
- “Spring, if it lingers more than a week beyond its span, starts to hunger for summer to end the days of perpetual promise. Summer in its turn soon begins to sweat for something to quench its heat, and the mellowest of autumns will tire of gentility at last, and ache for a quick sharp frost to kill its fruitfulness. Even winter — the hardest season, the most implacable — dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything tires with time, and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself.” ~ Clive Barker
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“February makes a bridge and March breaks it.” ~ Georges Hebert
- “You sweat out the free agent thing in November, then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January, and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms.” ~ Whitey Herzog
- “If you can believe it, Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine’s Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine’s Day. I said no.” ~ Cesar Romero, Born in February quotes
- “I got bitten by the free software bug in February of 1998 around the time of the Mozilla announcement.” ~ Andy Hertzfeld
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“The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.” ~ Joseph Wood Krutch
- “February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long.” ~ Anna Quindlen
- “Come when the rains
Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice,
While the slant sun of February pours
Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach!
The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps
And the broad arching portals of the grove
Welcome thy entering.” ~ William C. Bryant - “February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.” ~ Xavier Becerra
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“Rich meanings of the prophet-Spring adorn, / Unseen, this colorless sky of folded showers, / And folded winds…” ~ Alice Meynell
- “I have to admit, in January and February, I was in an absolute fuzz. I had no one on board. It wasn’t that I didn’t know what I was doing, but we didn’t have all the pieces put together.” ~ Donna Shalala
- “I just did something on a show on UPN called “Girlfriends” that will be on television in February. I am actually a much better actor today than I was in 1996, believe it or not.” ~ Christopher Darden
- “Dweezil and I are going on tour with the band probably starting in the middle of February for a month probably playing a few songs from my new record and then I’ll continue on after that tour” ~ Lisa Loeb
- “So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.” ~ Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking
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“My debut upon the world’s stage occurred on February 26th, 1845.” ~ Buffalo Bill
- “January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps — but, O ye hours! Follow with May’s fairest flowers.” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
- “Tinsel in February, tinsel in August.
There are things in a man besides his reason.” ~ Wallace Stevens - “The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine’s Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine’s Day on February’s shirt: he or she lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed.” ~ Tom Robbins , February quotes love
- “February makes a bridge and March breakes it.
[February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]” ~ George Herbert -
“Violets are God’s apology for February.” ~ Barbara Johnson
- “Late February, and the air’s so balmy snowdrops and crocuses might be fooled into early blooming. Then, the inevitable blizzard will come, blighting our harbingers of spring, and the numbed yards will go back undercover. In Florida, it’s strawberry season- shortcake, waffles, berries, and cream will be penciled on the coffeeshop menus.” ~ Gail Mazur
- “Go to the winter woods: listen there, look, watch, and “the dead months” will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found in the forest.” ~ William Sharp, February quotes winter
- “In the early 1970s in Atlanta, I attended what had formerly been an all-white school but had become a black school after integration and white flight. Perhaps because of this, the teachers created a curriculum that included a focus on African American literature and history year-round, not just in February.” ~ Natasha Trethewey
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“There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year.” ~ Kathleen Norris
- “Worst Month of the Year: February. February has only 28 days in it, which means that if you rent an apartment, you are paying for three full days you don’t get. Try to avoid Februarys whenever possible.” ~ Steven Rubenstein
- “February is a month of months, and there is one special day: Valentine’s Day on the 14th. I know it’s still a ways off, but I just can’t wait. Janice, if you’re watching, will you make me the happiest man in the world and get out of my apartment?” ~ Ed Helms, Happy February quotes
- “I’m like really bad at like remembering all these things, but basically we finished…we wrapped in August and we locked in February. It was like we did our first friends and family screening I would say 8-weeks after we locked…after we wrapped or 8-weeks after we wrapped.” ~ Nicholas Stoller
- “From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens – the garden outdoors, the garden of pots and bowls in the house, and the garden of the mind’s eye.” ~ Katharine Sergeant Angell White
- “December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.” ~ Mark Twain
