Thursday Thirteen #54: Spring Quotes

A few quotes about spring, in hopes that they might hasten the coming of the season and push winter out the door, once and for all.


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

Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer.
~Geoffrey B. Charlesworth

Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
~Rainer Maria Rilke

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want -- oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!
~Mark Twain

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.
~Proverb

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

Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.

~W. Earl Hall

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
~Margaret Atwood

And Spring arose on the garden fair,
Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere;
And each flower and herb on Earth's dark breast
rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley

In the spring I have counted one hundred and thirty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours.
~Mark Twain

The sun was warm but the wind was chill.
You know how it is with an April day.
~Robert Frost

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.
~Henry Van Dyke

Spring is not the best of seasons.
Cold and flu are two good reasons;
wind and rain and other sorrow,
warm today and cold tomorrow.
~Author Unknown


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Ms. Menozzi * Alice Audrey * Jennifer McKenzie
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