It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

 —Charles Dickens

I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.

—Langston Hughes

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

—Elizabeth Bowen

Is it so small a thing To have enjoy’d the sun, To have lived light in the spring, To have loved, to have thought, to have done...

—Matthew Arnold

When spring comes the grass grows by itself.

—The Tao Te Ching

A little Madness in the spring Is wholesome even for the King.

—Emily Dickinson

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

—Doug Larson

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the spring.

—Aldo Leopold

Spring has returned. The earth is like a child that knows poems.

—Rainer Maria Rilke

Spring: An experience in immortality.

 —Henry David Thoreau

Spring is nature’s way of saying, “Let’s party!”

 —Robin Williams

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

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

 —Margaret Atwood

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

 —George Santayana

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; / And give us not to think so far away/ As the uncertain harvest; keep us here / All simply in the springing of the year.

—Robert Frost