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.
Andre Gide

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.
Benjamin Disraeli

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

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.
Aeschylus

In fact, I was one of the few trusted people that Lucy allowed to play with their kids. I spent time at their summer home, rode horses at their ranch, and swam at their beach house. I even spent a Christmas with them at Palm Springs one year.
Keith Thibodeaux

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

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.
Pearl S. Buck

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
Ambrose Bierce

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
Maurice Maeterlinck

Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature.
Agnes Repplier

Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill.
John Simon

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.
William Penn

Marriage is like twirling a baton, turning hand springs or eating with chopsticks. It looks easy until you try it.
Helen Rowland

Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
Frederica Montseny

Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
Andrew Jackson

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.
Scott Adams

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

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

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.
Red Skelton