Last Word

By Michael C. Russell | Monday, May 19, 2008

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

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

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

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.
—H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

The genius of the American system is that through freedom we have created extraordinary results from plain ordinary people.
—Senator Phil Gramm

The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow. Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.
—E.B. White

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
—John Adams

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.
—F. E. Smith

April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.
—William Shakespeare

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.
—Benjamin Disraeli

April comes like an idiot, babbling and strewing flowers.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay

Every year, back comes spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.
—Dorothy Parker

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

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
—Ernest Hemingway

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

Summer has no day...summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald

I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and domestic, are not fitted to reign; at least it is they that drive themselves to the work which it entails.
—Queen Victoria

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule, and both commonly succeed, and are right.
—H.L. Mencken

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
—Adlai E. Stevenson

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.
—Ronald Reagan

My old man had a philosophy. Peace means having a bigger stick than the other guy.
—Tony Stark

If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
—John Maynard Keynes

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