"If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you're old." ~ Edgar Watson Howe

12/6/09

Winter Quotes

Here are some Winter Quotes I'd like to share with you.

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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
Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run.
-- James Russell Lowell
Goodness, Time's rude hand defies,
And winter lives when beauty dies.
--  Henry Kirke White
Winter, which strips the leaves from around us, makes us see the distant regions they formerly concealed; so does old age nob us of our enjoyments, only to enlarge the prospect of eternity before us.
-- Richter
After winter spring will come.
-- Hans Andersen
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.
-- Virginia Woolf
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
-- Victor Hugo
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
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
-- Albert Camus
One kind word can warm three winter months.
-- Japanese proverb
Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.
- Mignon McLaughlin
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.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For the unlearned, old age is winter; for the learned it is the season of the harvest.
-- The Talmud
Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.
-- From the movie An Affair to Remember
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.
-- Soren Kierkegaar
Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.
-- Unknown
Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.
-- Yoko Ono
I like these cold, gray winter days.  Days like these let you savor a bad mood. 
-- Bill Watterson

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