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Christopher Pearce Cranch

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 Spr

Henry Van Dyke

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

WEBSTER: _Duchess of Malfi,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

An honest statesman to a prince, Is like a cedar planted by a spring; The spring bathes the tree's root, the grateful tree Rewards it with his shadow.

TENNYSON: _Locksley Hall,_ Line 19.

In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

THOMSON: _Seasons, Spring,_ Line 1.

Come, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come; And from the bosom of your dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veiled in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend.

David Assael

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

A. Whitney Griswold

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.

Christina G. Rossetti

Spring is when life's alive in everything.

Zen Proverb

Sit quiety, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

Robin Williams

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!"

Henry Timrod

Spring is a true reconstructionist.

Robin Williams

Spring is nature's way of saying, Let's party!

Roy R. Gilson

Keep your faith in all beautiful things in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.

Albert Camus

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Pam Brown

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

C. E. Montague

To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.

Franz Kafka

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring Impatience and Laziness.

Virgil A. Kraft

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.

Kahlil Gibran

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.

Anne Bradstreet

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 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.

Doug Larson

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

CHARLES JEFFERYS: _The Meeting of Spring and Summer_

The bud is on the bough again. The leaf is on the tree.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Look well into thyself there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.

Walter Scott

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

SHAKS.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

Oh, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!

Chinese Proverb

Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.

American Indian Proverb

Walk lightly in the spring; Mother Earth is pregnant.

Rogers Hornsby

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

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.

THOMSON: _Seasons, Spring,_ Line 284.

Base envy withers at another's joy, And hates that excellence it cannot reach.

Mary Manin Boggs

My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent With the awful order of things.

HEMANS: _The Voice of Spring._

I have looked on the hills of the stormy North, And the larch has hung his tassels forth.

George Santayana

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

THOMSON: _Seasons, Spring,_ Line 996.

Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest.

Steven Wright

I'd like to sing you a song now about my old girlfriend. It'scalled, "They'll Find Her When the Leaves Blow Away 'Cause I'mNot Raking 'Til Spring."

Uta Hagan

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.

BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iv., St. 10.

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

Ikkyu Sojun

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.

SHAKS.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day; Which now shows all the beauty of the sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away.

Thomas Carlyle

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.

Hartley Coleridge

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.

POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. ii., Line 59.

Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole.

POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. i., Line 1.

Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing!

JOHN LOGAN: _To the Cuckoo._

Oh could I fly, I'd fly with thee! We'd make with joyful wing Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the spring.

Kahlil Gibran

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.

GEORGE MACDONALD: _Songs of the Spring Days._

A gentle wind of western birth, From some far summer sea, Wakes daisies in the wintry earth.

THOMSON: _Seasons, Spring,_ Line 286.

Desponding fear, of feeble fancies full, Weak and unmanly, loosens ev'ry power.

Robert Browning

The year???s at the spring and day???s at the morn, Morning???s at seven??? The hillsides dew-pearled; The lark???s on the wing; The snails on the thorn: God???s in his heaven ??“ All???s right with the world!

THOMSON: _Seasons, Spring,_ Line 1149.

Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot.

HENRY VAUGHAN: _Religion._

Religion is a spring, That from some secret, golden mine Derives her birth, and thence doth bring Cordials in every drop, and wine.

"Man who bounce woman on bed spring this spring have

From the end spring new beginnings.

A kind word is like a spring day.

[Spring is] a true reconstructionist.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

Spring makes everything look filthy.

A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King.

An optimist is the human personification of spring.

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

O, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day!

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education.

Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.

He who neglects to drink from the spring of experience is likely to die of thirst in the desert of ignorance.

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.

Every year, back come Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"Definitely a Rebel Deep Diving lure for early spring" -- Crow

"Jesus, David...your timing is a bit scary." - Nathan Spring

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.

"Bother", said Pooh, as he fell into the accursed spring!

"On second thought, I prefer your boot." - Nathan Spring (SC)

"I've never asked to be traded." - Kent Austin, spring of '94

"Some days, try as you will, nothing goes wrong." - Nathan Spring (SC)

"If the computer came up with it, it must be true." - Nathan Spring

"Falsehood has a perennial spring." -- Burke

"Even the gods did not spring into being overnight." Spock

If a man knows the law, find out, though he live in a pine shanty, and resort to him. And if a man can pipe or sing, so as to wrap the imprisoned soul in an elysium; or can paint a landscape, and convey into souls and ochres all the enchantments of Spring

"You're not exactly a spring Snardlepiffer yourself!!" - Opus

"Oh, to be a latrine, now that spring is here." -- Hawkeye

The faculty of imagination is the great spring of human activity, and the principle source of human improvement. As it delights in presenting to the mind scenes and characters more perfect than those which we are acquainted with, it prevents us from ever

My writing is like a ten gallon spring. It can issue from the ground anywhere at all. On smooth ground it rushes swiftly on and covers a thouasand li in a single day without difficulty. When it twists and turns among mountains and rocks, it fits its form

"Spring" - by April N. May

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.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas.

The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings.

"Are you going to spring us?" "I have no idea."