1,207 Quotes About Spring

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses us with the belief that such needs, passions and interests are the sole spring of actions.

Rivers neede a spring.

I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow.

The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.

The eyes of spring, so azure, Are peeping from the ground; They are the darling violets, That I in nosegays bound.

The fairest harmony springs from discord.

But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking.

Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees. The wind blows and one year's leaves are scattered on the ground; but the trees burst into bud and put on fresh ones when the spring comes round.

Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts with the new buds and spring comes round again. And so with men: as one generation comes to life, another dies away.