Springs Quotes

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

Idealism springs from deep feelings, but feelings are nothing without the formulated idea that keeps them whole.

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.

The geysers and hot springs of the Yellowstone are another proof of recent volcanic activity.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.

Whatever kind of seed is sown in a field, prepared in due season, a plant of that same kind, marked with the peculiar qualities of the seed, springs up in it.

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.

That is one good thing about this world... there are always sure to be more springs.

Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.

I repeat... that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

The whole of the situation of the Conservative Party today springs from that night when they dismissed the best prime minister the country had had since Churchill.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.