Spring Quotes

2107 quotes by 1434 authors

It is mediocrity which makes laws and sets mantraps and spring-guns in the realm of free song, saying thus far shalt thou go and no… — James Russell Lowell
That love for one, from which there doth not spring Wide love for all, is but a worthless thing. — James Russell Lowell
Ambition is a meteor-gleam; Fame a restless airy dream; Pleasures, insects on the wing Round Peace, th' tend rest flow'r of spring. — Robert Burns
Wag the world how it will, Leaves must be green in Spring. — Herman Melville
There is no quiet place in the white man's cities. No place to hear the unfurling of leaves in spring, or the rustle of an… — Chief Seattle
We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the… — Richard Le Gallienne
It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral… — Simone de Beauvoir
It were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its color and odor, as seek… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The temptations to wrong are many; they spring out of a corrupt nature. — Matthew Simpson
On the occasions when I have pondered over men's various activities, the dangers and worries they are exposed to at court or at war, from… — Blaise Pascal
Fantasy is no good unless the seed it springs from is a truth, a truth about human beings. — Eudora Welty
People were always asking for good sound proofs; doubt springs eternal in the human breast, even in countries where the Inquisition can read your very… — Thornton Wilder
In Winter the bare boughs that seem to sleep Work covertly, preparing for their Spring. — Rumi
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… — Robert Benchley
The Spring I seek is in a new face only. — Allen Tate
Saints can spring from any soil. — John Steinbeck
Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience… — Kenneth Tynan
A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet. — Francois Mauriac
For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those… — Primo Levi
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, musical but without rhythm and rhyme,… — Charles Baudelaire

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