| "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 |
| "spring is a true reconstructionist." »Henry Timrod |
| "From the end spring new beginnings." »Pliny the Elder |
| "spring is when life's alive in everything." »Christina G. Rossetti |
| "When you drink the water, remember the spring." »Chinese Proverb |
| "An optimist is the human personification of spring." »Susan J. Bissonette |
| "A little Madness in the spring Is wholesome even for the King." »Emily Dickinson |
| "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 |
| "To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations." »C. E. Montague |
| "There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring Impatience and Laziness." »Franz Kafka |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "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 |
| "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 |
| "My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent With the awful order of things." »Mary Manin Boggs |
| "spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas." »Mehmet Murat ildan |
| "No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "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 |
| "Discourtesy does not spring merely from one bad quality, but from several--from foolish vanity, from ignorance of what is due to others, from indolence, from stupidity, from distraction of thought, from contempt of others, from jealousy." »Jean de la Bruyere |
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