13 Quotes About Winter

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. - Anonymous
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter. - Dave Barry
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. - Stanley Crawford
I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime. - Will Rogers
Winter is nature’s way of saying, “Up yours.” - Robert Byrne
Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together. - Vesta M. Kelly
To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring. - W. J. Vogel
There are three reasons for becoming a writer: the first is that you need the money; the second that you have something to say that you think the world should know; the third is that you can’t think what to do with the long winter evenings. - Quentin Crisp
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. - Victor Hugo
I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood. - Bill Watterson
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
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
One kind word can warm three winter months. - Japanese Proverb

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