Winter Quotes - page 5

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. (Victor Hugo)
If you wish women to love you be original; I know a man who used to wear felt boots summer and winter & women fell in love with him. View quote
Anton Chekhov
Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city in winter they lose half of their appeal. View quote
Anton Chekhov
It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. View quote
Charles Dickens
So, timely you came, and well you chose, You came when most needed, my winter rose. From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness. View quote
Alfred Austin
People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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, we know it. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Late in the winter of my seventeenth year, my mother decided I was depressed, presumably because I rarely left the house, spent quite a lot of time in bed, read the same book over and over, ate infrequently, and devoted quite a bit of my abundant free time to thinking about death. View quote
John Green (author)
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins. View quote
William Shakespeare
Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York. (William Shakespeare)
Under the greenwood tree Who loves to lie with me, And turn his merry note Unto the sweet bird's throat, Come hither, come hither, come hither: Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather. View quote
William Shakespeare
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. View quote
Mark Twain
Finnish forests: Let us remind the satellite pictures of the 1970's winter in which the old forest appeared black and young forest and cut downs white. Already then the Finnish borders were like drawn on the map: White Finland between black Karelian and black Sweden. Finnish Forest Research Institute hicced up some time and then decided that the pictures are fake... View quote
Pentti Linkola
The earth with yellow pears And overgrown with roses wild Upon the pond is bent, And swans divine, With kisses drunk You drop your heads In the sublimely sobering water. But where, with winter come, am I To find, alas, the floweres, and where The sunshine And the shadow of the world? Cold the walls stand And the wordless, in the wind The weathercocks are rattling. View quote
Friedrich Hölderlin
It was the winter wild While the Heav'n-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. View quote
John Milton
The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mateless play; And, while the night is gathering grey, We'll talk its pensive hours away;-. View quote
Emily Brontë
All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair The bees are stirring birds are on the wing And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring And I the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south. View quote
Aristotle
What am I doing here in this endless winter? View quote
Franz Kafka
The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn; Heaven smiles, and faiths and empires gleam, Like wrecks of a dissolving dream. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
The cemetery is an open space among the ruins covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Friday before winter break, my mom packed me an overnight bag and a few deadly weapons and took me to a new boarding school. View quote
Rick Riordan
In case you're wondering, the underside of a sheep doesn't smell that great. Imagine a winter sweater that's been dragged through the mud and left in the laundry hamper for a week. Something like that. View quote
Rick Riordan
Normally, when I skydive, even in winter, I wear very thin gloves. I want to be flexible, with fast reactions. View quote
Felix Baumgartner