Winter Quotes
1406 quotes by 951 authors
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Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always…
— Martial
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Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.
— George Bernard Shaw
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What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?
— Henry David Thoreau
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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
— Mark Twain
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Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever."
— Bernard Williams
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My mother could never have said she loved fall, but as she walked down the steps with her suitcase in hand toward the red Monte…
— Dinaw Mengestu
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How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright…
— Carl Jung
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I think it was lucky that during most of the work on the Odyssey I lived on Homer's sea in houses that were, in one…
— Robert Fitzgerald
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And while the ice was melting to form a flood in which I threatened to drown I awoke one afternoon to find that my first…
— Ralph Ellison
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It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end. A candle burned on the table; A candle burned.
— Boris Pasternak
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With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter…
— Edward Bellamy
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I find it most true that the greatest temptation outside of hell is to live without temptations; if water stands, it rots; faith is the…
— Samuel Rutherford
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Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted…
— Denise Levertov
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It was kind of a beautiful day, finally real summer in Indianapolis, warm and humid - the kind of weather that reminds you after a…
— John Green
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It's well known that I interviewed with Philadelphia last winter, and I'd like to manage again,
— Jim Leyland
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How did writing come to me? Like bird’s down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in the heart a struggle of firebrands,…
— Rene Char
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When every autumn people said it could not last through the winter, and when every spring there was still no end in sight, only the…
— Barbara Tuchman
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Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although…
— William Shakespeare
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The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot.
— Jack Butler Yeats
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Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round & wet & crowded. At the outside, babies,…
— Kurt Vonnegut
Who Wrote These Winter Quotes
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