Spring Quotes
A kind word is like a spring day.Russian Prove
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.Victor Hugo
The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.Eugene V. Debs
O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona", Act 1 scene 3
In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee.Lord Byron, Stanzas to Augusta
To be amused by what you read - - That is the great spring of happy quotations.C. E. Montague
A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - And the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.Homer, The Iliad
Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way throughout a thousand obstacles.Washington Irving
A well frog knows nothing of the ocean for it is bound by its space. The Spring insect knows nothing of the Winter because it is bound to a single season.Chuang Tzu
Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.Dorothy Parke
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.G. M. Trevelyan
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
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.Cato the Elde
When you drink the water, remember the spring.Chinese Prove
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.Johann von Goethe
There will one day spring from the brain of science a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities, so absolutely terrifying, that even man, the fighter, who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death, will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.Thomas Alva Edison
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.David Hume
Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.Charles Dickens, Great expectations
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.Anne Bradstreet
Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.Dr. Anthony Daniels, The Observer (1998)
A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear - Sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerality of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.Vaclav Havel
It would be ridiculous to talk of male and female atmospheres, male and female springs or rains, male and female sunshine.... How much more ridiculous is it in relation to mind, to soul, to thought, where there is as undeniably no such thing as sex...Elizabeth Cady Stanton
A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.Alexander Pope, An essay on Criticism
There is no such thing as chance and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.Johann Christian Friedrich von Schille
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.Clarence Day
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
Where self - Interest is suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control that dries up the wellspring of initiative and creativity.Pope John Paul II
A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.Emily Dickinson, No. 1333
April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain. Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.T. S. Eliot
Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted, If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters returning Back to their springs, like the rain shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.Oscar Wilde
A generation of men is like a generation of leaves the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings forth - And the season of spring comes on. So of men one generation springs forth and another ceases.Home
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
If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood Ankle - Deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, This is Spring.Christopher Pearce Cranch
