Clover Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old clover quotes, clover sayings, and clover proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

If you meet a cross-eyed person you must plunge into the grass, alongside the chilly ants, fish through the green fingernails and come up with the four-leaf clover. Anne Sexton
If I were a field, you would be in clover. If I were the sun, you would be in shadow. If I had a gun, there'd be no tomorrow. Bare Naked Ladies
What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough. Bertolt Brecht
Believing there's no such thing as luck is very unlucky. Like, the worst. Beyond stealing someone's lucky four-leaf clover. Caprice Crane
The peace of great books be for you, Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages, Bleach of the light of years held in leather. Carl Sandburg
Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness. Conor Oberst
Green clovers. Blue diamonds. Orange Stars. Pink hearts. Purple horseshoes. Man, I never know if I'm looking at a bowl of cereal or having another acid flashback. David Henry
If you work, if you wait, you will find the place where the four-leaf clovers grow. Ella Higginson
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few. Emily Dickinson
Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal. George Orwell
No cop was ever born who wasn't a sucker for a finely-executed high-speed Controlled Drift all the way around one of those clover-leaf freeway interchanges. Hunter S. Thompson
Crowds of bees are giddy with clover Crowds of grasshoppers skip at our feet, Crowds of larks at their matins hang over, Thanking the Lord for a life so sweet. Jean Ingelow
There's no dew left on the daisies and clover; there's no rain left in heaven. Jean Ingelow
I'm feeling lucky like a four-leaf clover. Jennifer Lopez
Through the open door A drowsy smell of flowers -grey heliotrope And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette Comes fairly in, and silent chorus leads To the pervading symphony of Peace. John Greenleaf Whittier
I think of basset hounds whenever I turn on my computer because I have photos of them. And if I'm lucky, and I see one on the street, I know it's going to be a good day. They really are like a four-leaf clover. Julie Klausner
Story collectors tend to be superstitious. Knock on wood, black cats, four leaf clovers... that sort of thing. After all, superstitions are the little stories we tell ourselves to make sense of our chaotic world. Kristin O'Donnell Tubb
The fears of what may come to pass, I cast them all away, Among the clover scented grass, Among the new-mown hay. Louise Imogen Guiney
If you overvalue the uncommon, you spoil the uncommon and it begins to think of itself as something very precious! Don’t forget, a three-leaf clover is as valuable as the five-leaf-clover! Mehmet Murat ildan
I've always been drawn to the four-leaf clover. It's deeply significant to my sister and me, so much so that we both have had it tattooed on the inside of our wrists. Natalie Imbruglia
A best friend is like a four leaf clover: a hard to find and lucky to have. Sarah Jessica Parker
Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who hunts the hay-field overWill find the four-leaved clover. Sarah Orne Jewett
If a man who can’t count finds a four leaf clover, is he lucky? Stanislaw Lem
The shamrock is a religious symbol. St. Patrick said the leaves represented the trinity: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. That's why four leaf clovers are so lucky, you get a bonus Jesus. Stephen Colbert
I'll toss my coins in the fountain, Look for clovers in grassy lawns Search for shooting stars in the night Cross my fingers and dream on. Tracy Chapman
Don't search for a four-leaf clover. Good luck is shinning right above you. All you got to do, is believe. Happy St. Patrick's Day. unknown
The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. Walter Chrysler