Canadian Spring

Now is the winter of our discontent - William Shakespeare

Blossom by blossom the spring begins. - Algernon C Swinburne

Spring is the time of plans and projects. - Leo Tolstoy

You bring your own weather to the picnic. - Harlan Coben

If winter comes, can spring be far behind? - Percy Bysshe Shelley

In the kingdom of hope, there is no winter. - Russian Proverb

Spring is umbilical or else it is not spring. - Wallace Stevens

An old man in love is like a flower in winter. - Portuguese Proverb

Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm. - John Muir

Despite the forecast, live like it's spring. - Lilly Pulitzer

Climate is what we expect. Weather is what we get. - Mark Twain

An end is in sight to the severe weather shortage. - Ian Macaskill

To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring. - W.J. Vogel

A Canadian is somebody who can make love in a canoe. - Margaret Lally

If words were leaves, would you prefer fall or spring? - Jarod Kintz

I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods. - Georg Trakl

Finally my winter fat is done. Now I have spring rolls. - Unknown

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

The groundhog said six more weeks of winter so I ate him. - Wile E. Coyote

Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants. - Geraldo Rivera

The coldest winter I ever spent was summer in San Francisco. - Mark Twain

The English winter - ending in July, to recommence in August. - Lord Byron

Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring? - Neltje Blanchan

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

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" - Robin Williams

If you call ham "Canadian bacon", what do you call bacon? - Michael Kelso

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. - Oscar Wilde

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. - Anthony J. D'Angelo

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute. - Jessica Savitch

Always it's Spring,and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves. - e e cummings

If I had my life to live over again, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring. - Unknown

Sun salutations can energize and warm you, even on the darkest, coldest winter day. - Carol Krucoff

Advice from your friends is like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad. - Unknown

My mother is no spring chicken although she has got as many chemicals in her as one. - Edna Everage

I love Canada. I am from Canada. I will bash the Canadian government but never Canada. - Jason Priestley

I don't make plans, because life is short and unpredictable - much like the weather. - Al Roker

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus

Canadian hockey fans... They boo me every time I go anywhere. Because I play for Team USA. - Brett Hull

When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. - Ernest Hemingway

Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers. - John Keats

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring. - Vladimir Nabokov

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring. - Ezra Pound

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring. - Victor Hugo

Be careful not to complain about anything, even the weather, since I am the Author of your circumstances. - Sarah Young

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. - Robert Frost

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

Usually the thing that signifies that I'm done with the winter and all that is that I start skateboarding. - Shaun White

The only thing more depressing than another six weeks of winter would be having to spend them in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. - Unknown

Don't knock the weather. Nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. - Kin Hubbard

I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright. - Millard Kaufman

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it, and wrong too often for us to rely on it. - Patrick Young

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. - Anne Bradstreet

Or maybe spring is the season of love and fall the season of mad lust. Spring for flirting but fall for the untamed delicious wild thing. - Elizabeth Cohen

Passover and Easter are the only Jewish and Christian holidays that move in sync, like the ice skating pairs we saw during the winter Olympics. - Marvin Olasky

NBC News just called it "The Great Freeze" - coldest weather in years. Is our country still spending money on the global warming hoax? - Donald Trump

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home. - Edith Sitwell

I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce. - Taylor Swift

From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were - I have not seen
As others saw - I could not bring
My passions from a common spring. - Edgar Allan Poe

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country. - William J Bryan

An Irishman will always soften bad news, so that a major coronary is no more than 'a bad turn' and a near hurricane that leaves thousands homeless is 'good drying weather'. - Hugh Leonard