Spring Quotes

I want to do with you what spring does with cherry trees. (Pablo Neruda)
Autumn is a second spring where every leaf is a flower. View quote
Albert Camus
The greatest gift that Oxford gives her sons is, I truly believe, a genial irreverence toward learning, and from that irreverence love may spring. View quote
Robertson Davies
The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. View quote
Plutarch
Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted. View quote
Robert Benchley
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. View quote
Paul Valéry
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming. View quote
Pablo Neruda
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed. View quote
George Henry Lewes
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace, As I have seen in one autumnal face. View quote
John Donne
A little knowledge 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)
Falsehood is a perennial spring. View quote
Edmund Burke
Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise! View quote
Wallace Stevens
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. View quote
George Santayana
There is no sign of leaf or bud, A hush is over everything - Silent as women wait for love, The world is waiting for the spring. View quote
Sara Teasdale
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie. View quote
George Herbert
We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who hope that their dreams will come true. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Here dead we lie because we did not choose To live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; But young men think it is, and we were young. View quote
A. E. Housman
A little madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. View quote
Emily Dickinson
Isn't it sad to go to your grave without ever wondering why you were born? Who, with such a thought, would not spring from bed, eager to resume discovering the world and rejoicing to be part of it? (Richard Dawkins)
The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at. View quote
William Cullen Bryant
Spring is the time of plans and projects. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face. View quote
Langston Hughes