Winter Quotes
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Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. (Quote by - Victor Hugo)
Look! the massy trunks Are cased in the pure crystal; each light spray, Nodding and tinkling in the breath of heaven, Is studded with its trembling water-drops, That glimmer with an amethystine light. (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant)
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 time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer. (Quote by - Plutarch, Moralia)
Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round every windward stake, or tree, or door. Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he For number or proportion. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours." (Quote by - Robert Byrne)
Hear! hear! screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it." (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven, And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end. The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Looking up, she showed him quite a young face, but one whose bloom and promise were all swept away, as if the haggard winter should unnaturally kill the spring. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
These Winter nights against my window-pane Nature with busy pencil draws designs Of ferns and blossoms and fine spray of pines, Oak-leaf and acorn and fantastic vines, Which she will make when summer comes again-- Quaint arabesques in argent, flat and cold, Like curious Chinese etchings. (Quote by - Thomas Bailey Aldrich)
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. (Quote by - Edith Sitwell)
Winter dies into the spring, to be born again in the autumn. (Quote by - Marche Blumenberg)
Winter is icumen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the wind doth ramm! Sing: Goddamm. (Quote by - Ezra Pound)
To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring. (Quote by - W.J. Vogel)
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. (Quote by - Ruth Stout)
Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
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. (Quote by - Stanley Crawford)
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. (Quote by - Christina G. Rossetti)
Every mile is two in winter. (Quote by - George Herbert)
There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons-- That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes-- (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)
But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse; Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay, Time conquers all, and we must time obey. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff. (Quote by - Shirley Ann Grau)
Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories. (Quote by - From the movie)
Winter either bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail. (Quote by - Proverb)
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. (Quote by - William Blake)
When now, unsparing as the scourge of war, Blasts follow blasts and groves dismantled roar; Around their home the storm-pinched cattle lows, No nourishment in frozen pasture grows; Yet frozen pastures every morn resound With fair abundance thund'ring to the ground. (Quote by - Robert Bloomfield)
The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. (Quote by - Willa Cather)
O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know. (Quote by - William Cowper)
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. (Quote by - Boris Pasternak)
The last day of the old year was one of those bright, cold, dazzling winter days, which bombard us with their brilliancy, and command our admiration but never our love. (Quote by - Lucy Maud Montgomery)
I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime. (Quote by - Will Rogers)
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. (Quote by - Charles Kingsley)
Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright From the ice roof depending; and beneath, Grottoes and temples with their crystal spires And gleaming columns radiant in the sun. (Quote by - William Henry Burleigh)
On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence. (Quote by - John Keats)
Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow. (Quote by - Mrs. Lydia Maria Child)
One kind word can warm three winter months. (Quote by - Japanese Proverb)
Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination. (Quote by - Ward Elliot Hour)
Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. (Quote by - Robert Lee Frost)
Every Fern is tucked and set, 'Neath coverlet, Downy and soft and warm. (Quote by - Susan Coolidge)
Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow; "I hear the first young hard-bell ring, 'Tis time for me to go! Northward o'er the icy rocks, Northward o'er the sea, My daughter comes with sunny locks: This land's too warm for me!" (Quote by - Charles Godfrey Leland)
I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood. (Quote by - Bill Watterson)
O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car. (Quote by - William Blake)
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. . . . For summer being done, all things stand upon them with a weather-beaten face, and the whole country, full of woods and thickets, represented a wild and savage hue. (Quote by - William Bradford)
Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. (Quote by - Pietro Aretino)
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. (Quote by - Anne Bradstreet)
