"April showers bring May mud"

“April showers bring May flowers” is a proverb from at least the 1500s. “April showers bring (May) mud (puddles)” is a variation that has been printed on several images.

“April showers bring mud” was printed in the Meriden (CT) Daily Republican on April 8, 1895. “April showers bring May mud” was printed in the St. Joseph (MO) Gazette on May 1, 1915.

“Without it where would all those things that April showers bring—namely mud puddles—be if you didn’t have good old, hazy-brained May around?” was printed in The Oregon Statesman (Salem, OR) on May 3, 1959. “April Showers Bring May Mud Puddles” was printed in the South Bend (IN) Tribune on March 26, 2006. “April showers bring mud puddles. :(” was posted on Twitter by Mzlaki on April 2, 2013.

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8 April 1895, Meriden (CT) Daily Republican, “News and Views,” pg. 4, col. 2:
April showers bring mud.

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22 April 1898, The Press (Kansas City, KS), “Pressed into a Column,” pg. 1, col. 4:
April showers bring mud as well as flowers.

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20 April 1915, The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), “Grins and Groans,” pg. 5, col. 6:
Another Product.
Besides the flowers
That gaily bud
Those April showers
Bring May mud.

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1 May 1915, St. Joseph (MO) Gazette, “Little Gazetteers on Very Great Affairs,” pg. 4, col. 3:
April showers bring May mud.

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13 April 1922, The Gibson Courier (Gibson City, IL), pg. 6, col. 1 ad:
April Showers Bring Mud
as well as May Flowers
(P. Schertz & Co.—ed.)

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2 April 1927, The Chippewa Herald-Telegram (Chippewa Falls, WI), pg. 2, col. 5 ad:
APRIL SHOWERS BRING MAY—MUD
(L. R. Faulknor Texaco Oil Station.—ed.)

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3 May 1959, The Oregon Statesman (Salem, OR), “Comes the Dawn” by Conrad Prange, sec. 1, pg. 4, col. 3:
But May is a necessary month, Without it where would all those things that April showers bring—namely mud puddles—be if you didn’t have good old, hazy-brained May around?

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20 April 1966, The Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN), pg. 48, col. 7:
APRIL SHOWERS BRING MUD
(...)
THE SHOOK AGENCY

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26 April 1976, The Daily Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK), “Dennis the Menace” comic strip by Hank Ketcham, pg. 30, col. 7:
(Mother—ed.) “Cheer up, dear. You know what April showers bring, don’t you?”
(Dennis—ed.) “Yeah! MAY MUD PUDDLES!”

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4 May 1998, Star-Telegram (Fort Worth, TX), “Real Life Adventures” comic strip by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich, sec. D, pg. 6, col. 7:
April showers bring May mud.

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11 April 2005, Albuquerque (NM) Tribune, “The Born Loser” comic strip by Chip Sansom, pg. B6, col. 1:
THEY SAY APRIL SHOWER BRING MAY FLOWERS…
NOT IN MY GARDEN…
AROUND HERE, APRIL SHOWERS JUST BRING MUD!

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26 March 2006, South Bend (IN) Tribune, “Curious Kids’ site of spring break safari,” pg. D8, col. 4:
April Showers Bring May Mud Puddles

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Ed Maguire
@eemaguire
April showers bring…mud
1:49 PM · Apr 6, 2009·Twitter Web Client

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ALECSTASY VIII
@alecstasy
Stuck in the rain all day. April showers bring May mud.
4:00 PM · Apr 20, 2009·Twitter Web Client

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Marilyn Peake
@marilynpeake
April showers bring mud. #badproverbs
2:59 AM · Jul 26, 2009·Twitter Web Client

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Loki’s Pixie 🧚‍♂️
@Awesomenezz
April Showers bring….......................mud..
9:46 PM · Mar 31, 2011·TweetDeck

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Mzlaki
@Mzlaki
April showers bring mud puddles. :(
11:03 AM · Apr 2, 2013·Facebook

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🌒 Cade 🌘
@lunarGladiator
“You know what they say, April showers bring mud puddles” how redneck can you get?
6:07 PM · Apr 28, 2014·Twitter for Android

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Katy Mackenzie
@katymackenzie_
April showers bring mud 🌷 #Abbotsford #tulips #bloomsbest2018
Katy Mackenzie and 6 others
9:33 AM · Apr 17, 2018·Twitter for iPhone

Reddit—Pitbulls
Posted by u/nicolesetelia97 April 6, 2019
“April showers bring..” mud. it brings mud. the mud that my pup likes to roll around in..

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Lost in a swamp
@LostCauseDog
April showers bring May mud puddles!
8:27 PM · Mar 31, 2022·Twitter for Android

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Gunga Galunga
@Live2Nymph
April showers bring May mud #thatsjustthewayitis
10:25 PM · Apr 7, 2022·Twitter for iPhone

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Karen Brady
@mrsbradysclass
April Showers bring…
Mud Puddles!!!
@RSD6_Principal
7:11 PM · Apr 8, 2022·Twitter for iPhone

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MS Warrior 🌊🧡💙
@cindylocke47
My daughter said I’m a pessimist because I told her the saying should be; April showers bring mud.
It’s true, though, right?
7:53 PM · Apr 11, 2022 from Ladera Ranch, CA·Twitter for iPhone