| "Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it." »Vaclav Havel |
| "The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month. - from Fisherman's Luck" »Henry Van Dyke |
| "spring is about to spring. Persephone is coming back and the ice is groaning, about to break with the exquisite and deafening roar. It's a time for madness a time for our fangs to come down and our eyes to glaze over so that the beast in us can sing with unmitigated joy. Oh yes, ecstasy, I welcome thee" »David Assael |
| "Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam." »A. Whitney Griswold |
| "From the end spring new beginnings." »Pliny the Elder |
| "spring is a true reconstructionist." »Henry Timrod |
| "spring is when life's alive in everything." »Christina G. Rossetti |
| "A little Madness in the spring Is wholesome even for the King." »Emily Dickinson |
| "An optimist is the human personification of spring." »Susan J. Bissonette |
| "When you drink the water, remember the spring." »Chinese Proverb |
| "Sit quiety, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself." »Zen Proverb |
| "Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart." »Victor Hugo |
| "There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring Impatience and Laziness." »Franz Kafka |
| "To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations." »C. E. Montague |
| "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome." »Anne Bradstreet |
| "Look well into thyself there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there." »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
| "Keep your faith in all beautiful things in the sun when it is hidden, in the spring when it is gone." »Roy R. Gilson |
| "Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "If I ever become a mummy, I'm going to have it so when somebody opens my lid, a boxing glove on a spring shoots out." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education." »Plutarch |
| "Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring." »Chinese Proverb |
| "No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas." »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent With the awful order of things." »Mary Manin Boggs |
| "To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring." »George Santayana |
| "More than in any other performing arts the lack of respect for acting seems to spring from the fact that every layman considers himself a valid critic." »Uta Hagan |
| "Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me Oh then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light." »Hartley Coleridge |
| "Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come." »Thomas Carlyle |
| "The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us." »Paul Valery |
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