Winter Months Quotes

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would not cost half as much during the winter months.

In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Why can't a state that launches cosmonauts into space provide enough eggs and milk for its city children during the winter months?

While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

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.

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.

Spring is the usual period for house-cleaning and removing the dust and dirt which, notwithstanding all precautions, will accumulate during the winter months from dust, smoke, gas, etc.

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

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.

Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

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.

What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries-these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the Life of the Soul.

Known colloquially as 'winter,' 'golden needle,' and 'velvet foot' mushrooms, enoki mushrooms grow across much of the world, inhabiting dead conifer trees and stumps, and generally appearing throughout the late fall and winter months.

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

One of the best gifts you can give to an animal is a donation of a blanket to your local animal shelter during the winter months.

Now is the winter of our discontent.

Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

My father was a prosperous hatter-farmer - making hats for the local markets during the winter months, tilling his little ten-acre farm during the summer time.

Winter-related accidents and illnesses account for a large number of all senior health-related insurance claims during the winter months. But that doesn't mean that seniors have to sit this season out. By taking a few precautions, seniors can enjoy winter safely and securely.