February is known as the ‘month of love’, a time to celebrate Valentine’s Day, remembering the love and emphasizing its importance in our lives. It’s also an awareness month, known as ‘American Heart Month’, established by the CDC to educate the general public about stroke and heart disease.
What’s unique about February is that it’s the shortest of all the months, with only 28 days, and 29 in each leap year. It brings with it the end of winter and while it’s cold and dreary, it’s also a month of happiness, warmth, and love.
In this article, we’ve put together a list of 100 funny, motivational, or inspirational February quotes to brighten up your February days.
Funny February quotes
“February – the month of love?! No wonder it’s the shortest one in the calendar.”
Dinesh Kumar Biran
“Probably more pests can be controlled in an armchair in front of a February fire with a garden notebook and a seed catalogue than can ever be knocked out in hand-to-hand combat in the garden.”
Neely Turner
“February makes a bridge and March breaks it.”
George Hebert
“The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.”
Clive Barker
“Why does February feel like one big Tuesday?”
Todd Stocker
“February, a form pale-vestured, wildly fair. One of the North Wind’s daughters with icicles in her hair.”
Edgar Fawcett
“Valentine’s Day money-saving tip: Break up on February 13th, get back together on the 15th.”
David Letterman
“The day and time itself: late afternoon in early February, was there a moment of the year better suited for despair?”
Alice McDermott
“February 13 should be international condom day.”
Mario Tomasello
“When God was making the months, I think February was a mistake, like a burp. There it was, small, dark, and prickly. It had absolutely no redeeming qualities.”
Shannon Wiersbitzky
“Why, what’s the matter, that you have such a February face, so full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?”
William Shakespeare
“I used to try to decide which was the worst month of the year. In the winter I would choose February.”
Katherine Paterson
February Quotes for Work
“If January is the month of change, February is the month of lasting change. January is for dreamers. February is for doers.”
Marc Parent
“Cold and snowy February does seem slow and trying, very. Still, a month made gay by Cupid never could be wholly stupid.”
Louise Bennett Weaver
“The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.”
Joseph Wood Krutch
“New month, new intentions, new goals, new love, new light and new beginnings.”
April Mae Monterrosa
“The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.”
Gertrude Wister
“No one’s ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that’s abandoned by February.”
Suze Orman
“Every leap year I like to jump. It’s a good way to get my exercise in every four years.”
Jarod Kintz
“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
“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
“I used to want the words ‘she tried’ on my tombstone. Now I want ‘she did it’.”
Katherine Dunham
“Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.”
Oprah Winfrey
February Quotes for Love
“Though February is short, it is filled with lots of love and sweet surprises.”
Charmaine J Forde
“February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.”
Randeep Hooda
“February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level.”
Pepper Schwartz
“Without Valentine’s Day, February would be, well, January.”
Jim Gaffigan
“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
“On this Valentine’s Day my hope and wish is that our love will be forever.”
Catherine Pulsife
“It wasn’t love at first sight. It took a full five minutes.”
Lucille Ball
“We can only learn to love by loving.”
Iris Murdoch
“The only thing we should scream into the world is love.”
Jill Telford
“February, sweet and small, the greatest month of all.”
Eric Lies
“Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.”
Franklin P. Jones
“We love because it’s the only true adventure.”
Nikki Giovanni
“Today is Valentine’s Day—or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day!”
Jay Leno
“February always seem to give more joy than other months. Maybe because it’s the month of love.”
Unknown
“You know you’re in love when you don’t want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
Dr. Seuss
“If you love yourself first, you will find your Valentine much quicker!”
Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Love is the ultimate expression of the will to live.”
Tom Wolfe
“To love is to burn, to be on fire.”
Jane Austen
“Love is not love until love’s vulnerable.”
Theodore Roethke
“The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine’s Day.”
Tom Robbins
“Never sign a Valentine with your own name.”
Charles Dickens
“In February when my garden is barren of flowers, you are the only flower blooming in my heart. I cherish you and adore you with all of my heart because you are my Valentine.”
Debasish Mridha
“Valentine’s Day is an extraordinary moment for recalling the lasting power of a true love.”
M.F.
“Love is an untamed force.”
Paulo Coelho
“Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!”
Thomas Hood
“When February birds do mate, you wed nor dread your fate . . . married in February’s sleepy weather, life you’ll tread in time together.”
New Zealand Proverb
“Valentine’s Day is a love note to the rest of the year.”
Jo Lightfoot
“A valentine warms the heart.”
Kriss Stewart
“Along about the beginning of February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer, I caught one of those colds which last for two days in the children and two weeks with me.”
Shirley Jackson
February Quotes for Life
“While reflecting on past relationships and learning from them can be helpful, February isn’t the best time to try and gain insight.”
Amy Morin
“February brings the rain, thaws the frozen lake again.”
Sara Coleridge
“One of the major dangers of being alone in February is the tendency to dwell on past relationships. Whether you’re daydreaming about that ‘one that got away,’ or you’re recalling the fairy tale date you went on last Valentine’s Day, romanticizing the past isn’t helpful – nor accurate.”
Amy Morin
“February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.”
Katherine Paterson
“I had it figured out that 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
“Thick February mists cling heavily to the dead earth and to each leafless tree.”
Emma Lazarus
“February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.”
Shirley Jackson
“February. Take ink and weep, write February as you’re sobbing, while black Spring burns deep through the slush and throbbing.”
Boris Pasternak
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”
Helen Keller
“Terrible, dreepy, dark February weather I remember, and the worst, most frightened days of my life.”
Sebastian Barry
“The bitter winds in February were sometimes called the First East Winds, but the longing for spring somehow made them seem more piercing.”
Eiji Yoshikawa
“Good morrow, Benedick. Why, what’s the matter? That you have such a February face so full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?”
William Shakespeare
“On the wind in February, snowflakes float still. Half inclined to turn to rain, nipping, dripping, chill.”
Christina Georgina Rossetti
“If you meet 29th February, think of something unique for it is the only day that defines a year as a leap year. It is the only day that makes February truly unique.”
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“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
Born in February Quotes
“A strange, amazing day that comes only once every four years . . . A day of temporal tune up.”
Vera Nazarian
“Your birthday happens each year on exactly the same day. It is a solid thing, a dependable thing, a measure of your life broken down into 365 subunits. For a Leaper, it is a bit different. For us, the basic assumption is shattered from the beginning.”
Rick Tumlinson
Hello February quotes
“Let us welcome February and take every chance to show love to all we meet.”
Anonymous
“February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.”
Sendhil Mullainathan
“Freezing cold winds, biting chills, and white snow fluffed hills Valentine’s day, oh how gay! Presidents’ Day is coming our way. February, sweet and small, the greatest month of all.”
Eric Lies
“February is the uncertain month, neither black nor white but all shades between by turns. Nothing is sure.”
Gladys Hasty Carroll
“February is short and very sweet.”
Charmaine J Forde
“Today is the first of February, snowy, brilliant, but dripping with the sound of spring wherever the sun lies warm, and calling with the heart of spring yonder where the crows are assembling.”
Dallas Lore Sharp
“February – the month that fills you with overthinking about your love life.”
Unknown
“February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.”
Hunter S. Thompson
February Blessings
“Welcome February, wishing you a month filled with love peace and joy.”
Anonymous
“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
“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
“Okay love birds -listen up! I have an announcement to make. Today is the 14th of February and it is a special day for you. Try to loosen up and love each other like you inhale the last breath of your life. Make it exciting and enjoyable. Happy Valentine’s Day.”
Euginia Herlihy
Inspirational February Quotes
“In February there is everything to hope for and nothing to regret.”
Patience Strong
“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
“It takes three springs to make one leap year.”
The Comic Almanack
“The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.”
William C. Bryant
“Late February, and the air’s so balmy snowdrops and crocuses might be fooled into early blooming.”
Gail Mazur
“Even though February was the shortest month of the year, sometimes it seemed like the longest.”
Lorraine Snelling
“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
“It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow.”
David Cone
“February is the border between winter and spring.”
Terri Guillemets
“February is the shortest month, so if you’re having a miserable month, try to schedule it for February.”
Lemony Snickett
“February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March.”
Dr. J. R. Stockton
“February is for curmudgeons, whinge-bags, and misanthropes. You can’t begrudge us one month of the year or blame us for being even crabbier, it’s so short. There is nothing good about it, which is why it’s so great.”
Lionel Shriver
“Fair Maid of February, drop of snow. Enchanted to a flower, and there within. A dream of April green who without sin. Conceived wast, but how no man may know.”
Fraser’s Magazin
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
“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
“If you don’t distinguish yourself from the crowd, you’ll just be the crowd.”
Rebecca Mark
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.”
Walt Whitman
“The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.”
Clive Barker
Wrapping Up
February – a month of love and the ending of winter. If you enjoy February, we hope that these quotes inspired you to get through each day of the month and inspired you to love it all the more!
