Spring Quotes
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.G. M. Trevelyan
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
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
Spring is a true reconstructionist.Henry Timrod
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
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
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
All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.Johann von Goethe
Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.Scott Adams
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
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.Oscar Wilde
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
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.David Hume
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
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
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.Franz Kafka
We slew the goliath of raciism, but, we now must contend with his offspring.Rev. Jesse Jackson
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
All cruelty springs from weakness.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Beauty is a form of genius - - Is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.Oscar Wilde
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.Anne Bradstreet
From the end spring new beginnings.Pliny the Elde
From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.Cato the Elde
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
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
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
A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs - - Jolted by every pebble in the road.Henry Ward Beeche
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
When you drink the water, remember the spring.Chinese Prove
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts.Clarence Day
To be amused by what you read - - That is the great spring of happy quotations.C. E. Montague
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring Impatience and Laziness.Franz Kafka
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.Schille
An optimist is the human personification of spring.Susan J. Bissonette
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
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
