Logo
The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young vir

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, “Hot Weather,” One Man’s Meat, 1944

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Springtime
category

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring. – Bern Williams

Category:
Springtime

Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world. – Virgil A. Kraft

Category:
Springtime

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

Category:
Springtime

I hear the passing echoes of winter and feel the warming spring on my face. – Terri Guillemets

Category:
Springtime

Random Quotes

Im just as insufferable and useless as every other dad is. The dynamic never changes, no matter what you do for a living. – Glenn Frey

Category:
dad

I was a big fan of Middle Eastern elements of music and experimental electronic and tribal sounds. – Adam Lambert

Category:
Music

The name of a man is a numbing blow from which he never recovers. – Marshall McLuhan

Category:
Names

Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England. – Horace Porter

Category:
smile