Spring Quotes - Page 36

• It is sad
  To see the light of beauty wane away,
  Know eyes are dimming, bosoms shrivelling, feet
  Losing their springs, and limbs their lily roundness;
  But it is worse to feel the heart-spring gone,
  To lose hope, care not for the coming thing,
  And feel all things go to decay within us.

  Philip James Bailey

  Heart, Eye, Light

  Philip James Bailey, “Festus - XXIII”

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• Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man.

  John Ruskin

  Morning, Fall, Men

  John Ruskin (1868). “pt. VI: Of leaf beauty. pt. VII: Of cloud beauty. pts. VIII-IX: Of ideas of relation”, p.338

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• 1. Always wait between books for the springs to fill up and flow over. 2. Always preserve within a wild sanctuary, an inaccessible valley of reveries. 3. Always, and as far as it is possible, endeavor to touch life on every side; but keep the central vision of the mind, the inmost light, untouched and untouchable.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Book, Light, Waiting

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• The more we sink into the infirmities of age, the nearer we are to immortal youth. All people are young in the other world. That state is an eternal spring, ever fresh and flourishing. Now, to pass from midnight into noon on the sudden, to be decrepit one minute and all spirit and activity the next, must be a desirable change. To call this dying is an abuse of language.

  Jeremy Collier

  Death, Other Worlds, People

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• Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn't come this year, but dogwoods have faith.

  Barbara Holland

  Years, Waiting, Have Faith

  Barbara Holland (1997). “Bingo Night at the Fire Hall: The Case for Cows, Orchards, Bake Sales, & Fairs”, Harcourt

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• The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

  Hannah More

  Comfort, Littles, Sober

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.205

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• The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the fullness of human living. Man cannot be happy for long unless he is in contact with the springs of spiritual life which are hidden in the depths of his own soul. If man is exiled constantly from his own home, locked out of his spiritual solitude, he ceases to be a true person.

  Thomas Merton

  Happy, Spiritual, Peace

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• The source of each accordant strain
  Lies deeper than the Poet's brain.
  First from the people's heart must spring
  The passions which he learns to sing;
  They are the wind, the harp is he,
  To voice their fitful melody,--
  The language of their varying fate,
  Their pride, grief, love, ambition, hate,--
  The talisman which holds inwrought
  The touchstone of the listener's thought;
  That penetrates each vain disguise,
  And brings his secret to his eyes.

  Bayard Taylor

  Lying, Hate, Grief

  Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.111

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• I cannot worship the abstractions of virtue: she only charms me when she addresses herself to my heart, speaks through the love from which she springs.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Heart, Addresses, Worship

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• Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind
  To stamp a lasting image of the mind!
  Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing,
  Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring;
  But Man alone has skill and power to send
  The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend;
  'Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise
  Ages remote, and nations yet to rise.

  George Crabbe

  Heart, Men, Skills

  George Crabbe (1858). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe”, p.60

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• When winter stern, his gloomy front uprears,
  A sable void the barren earth appears;
  The meads no more their former verdure boast,
  Fast-bound their streams, and all their beauty lost;
  The herds, the flocks, in icy garments mourn, and wildly murmur for the Spring's return;
  From snow-topp'd hills the whirlwinds keenly blow,
  Howl through the woods, and pierce the vales below,
  Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies,
  Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies.

  George Crabbe

  Winter, Blow, Sight

  George Crabbe (1861). “The Life and Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe”, p.8

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• When you fall in love, it is spring no matter when. Leaves falling make no difference, they are from another season.

  Edna O'Brien

  Falling In Love, Differences, Matter

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• The virtuous to those mansions go
  Where pleasures unembitter'd flow,
  Where, leading up a jocund band,
  Vigor and Youth dance hand in hand,
  Whilst Zephyr, with harmonious gales,
  Pipes softest music through the vales,
  And Spring and Flora, gaily crown'd,
  With velvet carpet spread the ground;
  With livelier blush where roses bloom,
  And every shrub expires perfume.

  Charles Churchill

  Hands, Rose, Velvet

  Charles Churchill (1762). “The Ghost”, p.38

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• The sun is all about the world we see, the breath and strength of every spring.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  World, Sun, Breaths

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• Spring is my sweetheart.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Sweetheart, My Sweetheart

  Mary Baker Eddy (1949). “Christian Science Sentinel”

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• Truly, a command of gall cannot be obeyed like one of sugar. A man must require just and reasonable things; if he would see the scales of obedience properly trimmed. From orders which are improper, springs resistance, which is not easily overcome.

  Giambattista Basile

  Men, Order, Overcoming

  Giambattista Basile, John Edward Taylor, George Cruikshank (1850). “The Pentamerone, Or the Story of Stories Fun for the Little Ones Translated from the Neapolitan by John Edward Taylor”, p.168

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• Spring ... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep.

  Edna Ferber

  Summer, Promise, Made

  Edna Ferber (2014). “American Beauty”, p.111, Vintage

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• You wonder why your government's completely broken? We lurch from deadline to deadline, and it's on purpose really. We do deadline to deadline because ... 'we've got to go. It's spring break, we're going to be late for spring break, and we've got to go, so we've got to finish this up before we go.'

  Rand Paul

  Government, Nsa, Broken

  "Rand Paul's NSA Filibuster: His Notable Quotes" by Andrew Desiderio, www.realclearpolitics.com. May 21, 2015.

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• watch out fer these fellers around here. It ain't safe fer a pretty girl. Why, I had one just now tell me I looked like a breath of spring. Well, he didn't use them words, exactly. He said I looked like the end of a hard winter.

  Minnie Pearl

  Girl, Winter, Watches

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• Children are monsters of unbridled egotism and will, for they spring directly from nature, hostile intimations of immorality.

  Camille Paglia

  Children, Monsters, Egotism

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.30, Canongate Books

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• The insect-youth are on the wing,
  Eager to taste the honied spring,
  And float amid the liquid noon!

  Thomas Gray

  Wings, Taste, Liquid

  1748 Ode on the Spring, l.25-30.

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• All ills spring from some vice, either in ourselves or others; and even many of our diseases proceed from the same origin. Remove the vices; and the ills follow. You must only take care to remove all the vices. If you remove part, you may render the matter worse. By banishing vicious luxury, without curing sloth and an indifference to others, you only diminish industry in the state, and add nothing to men's charity or their generosity.

  David Hume

  Men, Luxury, Generosity

  David Hume (1809). “Essays, moral, political, and literary”, p.297

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• While it is undeniable that many have been driven to immorality and crime by the need to survive, it is equally evident that the possession of a significant surplus of material goods has never been a guarantee against covetousness, rapacity and the infinite variety of vice and pain which spring from such passions. Indeed, it could be argued that the unrelenting compulsion of those who already have much to acquire even more has generated greater injustice, immorality and wretchedness than the cumulative effect of the struggles of the severely underprivileged to better their lot.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Pain, Struggle, Passion

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• the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.

  Margaret Millar

  Smell, Rooms, Lilac

  Margaret Millar (2015). “Vanish in an Instant”, p.33, Soho Press

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• O what a flowery track lies spread before me, henceforth! What dust clouds shall spring up behind me as I speed on my reckless way! What carts I shall fling carelessly into the ditch in the wake of my magnificent onset!

  Kenneth Grahame

  Lying, Clouds, Dust

  Kenneth Grahame, Seth Lerer (2009). “The Wind in the Willows: An Annotated Edition”, p.75, Harvard University Press

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