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Friday, November 14, 2008

Winter Quotes and Sayings

Winter dies into the spring, to be born again in the autumn.- Marche Blumenberg

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.- Stanley Crawford

Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.- Mignon McLaughlin

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.- Anonymous

Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they do when they stick together.- Verna M. Kelly

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

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.- Willa Sibert Cather

In the winter I was with Nelson Piquet. He was talking about his capacity to race faster. He said that he was still learning new things all the time.- Jean Alesi

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.- Victor Hugo

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.- Andrew Wyeth

And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.- William Bradford

Blow, blow, thou winter windThou art not so unkind,As man’s ingratitude.- William Shakespeare

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.- John Burroughs

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

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.- Will Rogers

And finally Winter, with its bitin’, whinin’ wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.- Roy Bean

As winter weather settles in around the country, millions of American families are facing skyrocketing home heating prices with even greater impact if cold temperatures persist into the spring.- Russ Carnahan

The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.- Dave Barry

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

You can’t get too much winter in the winter.- Robert Frost

Winter makes a bridge between one year and another and, in this case, one century and the next.- Andy Goldsworthy

Brew me a cup for a winter’s night.For the wind howls loud and the furies fight;Spice it with love and stir it with care,And I’ll toast our bright eyes,my sweetheart fair.- Minna Thomas Antrim

Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.- Sinclair Lewis

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

As the winter set in with its customary Canadian severity the real trouble of the French began. They did not suffer from the cold, but they were dying of scurvy.- Harry Johnston

Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.- Anonymous

One kind word can warm three winter months.- Japanese Proverb

Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.- Damon Hill

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