Winter Quotes

1406 Winter quotes by 951 unique authors

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… — John Burroughs
Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some… — Plutarch
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… — Ruth Stout
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an… — Carl Sagan
Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food… — Abraham Lincoln
Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all the… — Linda Grant
Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the… — Samuel Johnson
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
Learn to love the sunrise and sunset, the beating of rain on the roof and windows, and the gentle fall of snow on a winter… — Lowell L. Bennion
The cause of rain is now, I consider, no longer an object of doubt. If two masses of air of unequal temperatures, by the ordinary… — John Dalton
It's so bad being homeless in winter. They should go somewhere warm like the Caribbean where they can eat fresh fish all day. — Unknown Author
Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in… — William Bligh
There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed, for example,… — Bat Masterson
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. — Mark Twain
One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter. — Henry David Thoreau
In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall... — Fyodor Dostoevsky
There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter… — Nora Ephron
We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest. — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
The hearts that love will know never winter's frost and chill. Summer's warmth is in them still. — Unknown Author
Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance? — William Shakespeare
Bakers of bread rolls and pastry cooks will not buy grain before eleven o'clock in winter and noon in summer. — Cardinal Richelieu
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike… — Vanessa Mae
They [potatoes] are good for boys cold fingers at suppertime on winter nights. — Mary Virginia Terhune
Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom… — George Gissing

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