30 WINTER QUOTES

  

 

"How many lessons of faith

and beauty we should lose,

if there were no winter in our year!"

- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

 

 

"I love the scents of winter!

For me, it's all about the feeling you get

when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon,

nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce."

- Taylor Swift

 

 

"I pray this winter be gentle and kind

a season of rest from the wheel of the mind. "

- John Geddes

 

 

"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

 

 

"I write probably 80 percent

of my stuff over the winter."

- Bob Seger

 

 

"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

 

 

"If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

 

 

"If winter helps you curl up and

more that makes it one of

the best of the seasons."

- Murray Pura

 

 

"In seed time learn,

in harvest teach,

in winter enjoy."

- William Blake

 

 

"It is the life of the crystal,

the architect of the flake,

the fire of the frost,

the soul of the sunbeam.

This crisp winter air is full of it. "

- John Burroughs

 

 

"Laughter is the sun that

drives winter from the human face."

- Victor Hugo

 

 

"Let us love winter,

for it is the spring of genius."

- Pietro Aretino

 

 

"Many human beings say that

they enjoy the winter,

but what they really enjoy is

feeling proof against it."

- Richard Adams

 

 

"No winter lasts forever;

no spring skips its turn."

- Hal Borland

 

 

"Nothing is as easy to make

as a promise this winter

to do something next summer;

this is how commencement speakers are caught."

- Sydney J. Harris

 

 

"One kind word can warm three winter months. "

- Japanese Proverb

 

 

"People don't notice

whether it's winter or summer

when they're happy."

- Anton Chekhov

 

 

"Thank goodness for the first snow,

it was a reminder no matter how old you became and

how much you'd seen,

things could still be new

if you were willing to believe they still mattered."

- Candace Bushnell

 

 

"The hard soil and four months of

snow make the inhabitants of

the northern temperate zone wiser and

abler than his fellow

who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics. "

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

 

"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

 

 

"Welcome, winter.

Your late dawns and

chilled breath make me lazy,

but I love you nonetheless. "

- Terri Guillemets

 

 

"Blow ye winds,

like the trumpet blows,

but without that noise. "

- Jack Handey

 

 

"What good is the warmth of summer,

without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. "

- John Steinbeck

 

 

"When I was young,

I loved summer and hated winter.

When I got older I loved winter and hated summer.

Now that I'm even older, and wiser,

I hate both summer and winter."

- Jarod Kintz

 

 

"Winter blues are cured every time

with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken."

- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

 

 

"Winter forms our character

and brings out our best."

- Tom Allen

 

 

"Winter is a season of recovery and preparation."

- Paul Theroux

 

 

"Winter is not a season, it's a celebration."

- Anamika Mishra

 

 

"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