Spring Quotes
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.Kahlil Gibran
There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring Impatience and Laziness.Franz Kafka
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.Cato the Elde
I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist.Benjamin Disraeli
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.Plutarch, Morals
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
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
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - - Jolted by every pebble in the road.Henry Ward Beeche
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
Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding - Garlands to decay - - Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.Charles Kingsley
Spring makes everything look filthy.Katherine Whitehorn
The fountain of content must spring up in the mind, and he who hath so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition, will waste his life in fruitless efforts and multiply the grief he proposes to remove.Samuel Johnson
To be amused by what you read - - That is the great spring of happy quotations.C. E. Montague
Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.James Ramsey
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
Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.Dr. Anthony Daniels, The Observer (1998)
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.Oscar Wilde
Spring is a true reconstructionist.Henry Timrod
Keep your faith in all beautiful things in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.Roy R. Gilson
My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent With the awful order of things.Mary Manin Boggs
There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.J. R. R. Tolkien
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, A Spring Growl
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
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
We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.Bertrand Russell
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
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
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
Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.Dorothy Parke
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.Thomas Carlyle
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.Plato, The Republic
Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.Charles Dickens, Great expectations
