"I think of the garden after the rain;
And hope to my heart comes singing,
"At morn the cherry-blooms will be white,
And the Easter bells be ringing!"
-- Edna Dean Procter, Easter Bells
"Earth's saddest day and gladdest day were just three days apart!"
-- Susan Coolidge
"Easter tells us that life is to be interpreted not simply in terms of things but in terms of ideals."
-- Charles M. Crowe
"On Easter Day the veil between time and eternity thins to gossamer."
-- Douglas Horton
"Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won't stay there."
-- Clarence W. Hall
"All I really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt!" -- Lucy Van Pelt in Peanuts, by Charles M. Schultz
"Chocolate causes certain endocrine glands to secrete hormones that affect your feelings and behavior by making you happy. Therefore, it counteracts depression, in turn reducing the stress of depression. Your stress-free life helps you maintain a youthful disposition, both physically and mentally. So, eat lots of chocolate!" -- Elaine Sherman
"Forget love; Id rather fall in chocolate."
-- Anonymous
"There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate."
-- Linda Grayson
"The fasts are done; the Aves said;
The moon has filled her horn
And in the solemn night I watch
Before the Easter morn.
So pure, so still the starry heaven,
So hushed the brooding air,
I could hear the sweep of an angel's wings
If one should earthward fare."
-- Edna Dean Proctor
"See the land, her Easter keeping,
Rises as her Maker rose;
Seeds so long in darkness sleeping
Burst at last from winter snows.
Earth with heaven above rejoices;
Fields and garlands hail the spring;
Shaughs and woodlands ring with voices
While the wild birds build and sing."
-- Charles Kingsley
"In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it,
You'll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade."
-- Irving Berlin
"I'm a little hoarse tonight. I've been living in Chicago for the past two months, and you know how it is, yelling for help on the way home every night. Things are so tough in Chicago that at Easter time, for bunnies the little kids use porcupines."
-- Fred Allen
"A strangely reflective, even melancholy day. Is that because, unlike our cousins in the northern hemisphere, Easter is not associated with the energy and vitality of spring, but more with the subdued spirit of autumn?"
-- Hugh Mackay
"Good Idea: Finding Easter eggs on Easter.
Bad Idea: Finding Easter eggs on Xmas."
-- Jack Handy
"Altzheimer's Advantage #2 : You can hide your own Easter eggs."
-- Anonymous
"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
"A late Easter, a long cold spring."
-- French Proverb
"Green Christmas, white Easter."
-- German Proverb
"Easter is not a passport to another world; it is a quality of perception for this one."
-- W.P. Lemon