Cute Winter Quotes

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

  Bill Watterson

  Winter, Bad Mood, Cold

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• If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Inspirational, Life, Appreciation

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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• Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Summer, Spring, Fall

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.108, BookBaby

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• No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

  Hal Borland

  Inspirational, Change, Meaningful

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

  Anne Bradstreet

  Spring, Adversity, Winter

  Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

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• A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

  Patricia Briggs

  Summer, Mean, Winter

  Patricia Briggs (2002). “Dragon Blood”, p.197, Penguin

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

  John Steinbeck

  Summer, Winter, Weather

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• 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

  Winter, Thinking, Luxury

  Stanley Crawford (1992). “A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm”, p.55, UNM Press

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• The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.

  Benjamin Alire Saenz

  Heart, Winter, Cold

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

  Andrew Wyeth

  Fall, Autumn, Winter

  Andrew Wyeth, Greenville County Museum of Art (1979). “Works”

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

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Spring, Winter, Clouds

  "Ode to the West Wind" l. 70 (1819)

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

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

  William Blake

  Life, Thinking Of You, Nature

  William Blake, William Butler Yeats (1905). “Collected Poems”, p.165, Psychology Press

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

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Football, Winter

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• Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

  Pietro Aretino

  Spring, Winter, Jugs

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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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

  Home, Winter, Weather

  Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.176, A&C Black

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• One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Summer, Nature

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• Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Winter, Blow

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 7, l. 174

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

  Tom Allen

  Character, Winter, Months

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

  Will Rogers

  Atheist, Winter, Thinking

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• Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.

  Yoko Ono

  Summer, Time, Spring

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• My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

  George R. R. Martin

  Friendship, Summer, Grandmother

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.1034, Bantam

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• Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

  Victor Hugo

  Nature, Spring, Heart

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• 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

  Winter, Fire, Air

  John Burroughs (1875). “Winter Sunshine”, p.14

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• 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

  Summer, Perseverance, Gratitude

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