No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

—Hal Borland

Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.

—Lewis Grizzard

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

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

Awake, thou wintry earth / Fling off thy sadness! / Fair vernal flowers, laugh forth / Your ancient gladness!

—Thomas Blackburn

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

                              —Doug Larson

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

—Margaret Atwood

Indoors or out, no one relaxes in March, that month of wind and taxes, the wind will presently disappear, the taxes last us all the year.

—Ogden Nash

Every spring is the only spring — a perpetual astonishment.

—Ellis Peters

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

If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall.              

                             —Nadine Stair