When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
- Alice Hoffman
“Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.”
- Pietro Aretino
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me
there lay an invincible summer.
- Albert Camus
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
- Victor Hugo
Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man’s ingratitude.
- William Shakespeare
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
Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.
- John Keats
In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.
- Christina Rossetti
Isn’t it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
- Kelvin Throop III
Don’t knock the weather. If it didn’t change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn’t start a conversation.
- Kin Hubbard
“Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.”
- Mignon McLaughlin
“One kind word can warm three winter months.”
- Japanese Proverb
“Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay
– Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.”
- Charles Kingsley
“There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you…. In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.”
- Ruth Stout
Winter is icumen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the wind doth ramm! Sing: Goddamm.
- Ezra Pound
In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.
- Christina G. Rossetti
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