Spring Cleanup in Canada

Groundhog Day - think Spring! - Unknown

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

The deep roots never doubt spring will come. - Marty Rubin

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

Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness! - George Eliot

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

At the best of times, spring hurts depressives. - Angela Carter

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

Ever notice how baby shampoo smells like spring? - Toni Sorenson

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

because it's Spring
thingS dare to do people - e e cummings

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

There is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather. - Christina Rossetti

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

It is best to read the weather forecasts before we pray for rain. - Mark Twain

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

This is perfect weather for today's game. Not a breath of air. - Curt Gowdy

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. - Charles Dudley Warner

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

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

Creative play is like a spring that bubbles up from deep within a child. - Joan Almon

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer. - Dodie Smith

Everything holds its breath except spring. She bursts through as strong as ever. - B.M. Bower

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

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. - Amelia Barr

I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older. - Virginia Woolf

I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed my bang in the face. - Langston Hughes

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

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

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. - Mark Twain

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

A little learning is a dangerous thing
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. - Alexander Pope

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

Let's get an extended weather forecast from a jittery, inconsistent, reddish brown rodent. - Unknown

The fantasy of every Australian man is to have two women - one cleaning and the other dusting. - Maurenn Murphy

The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing. - Steven Wright

It's not my fault I was dragged out of my house by a mob and forced to predict the weather. - Punxsutawney Phil

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

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy. - Bertrand Russell

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

Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shovelling the walk before it stops snowing. - Phyllis Diller

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

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

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

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion... I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward. - Kurt Vonnegut

The darn trouble with cleaning the house is it gets dirty the next day anyway, so skip a week if you have to. The children are the most important thing. - Barbara Bush

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

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

Today's weather forecast: heavy showers of blessings, strong wings to blow your worries away, followed by warm hugs and kisses to put smiles on your face. - Unknown

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