One kind word can warm three winter months.
—Japanese proverb
The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.
—John Burroughs
When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it's magical.
—Pamela Ribon
When there's snow on the ground, I like to pretend I'm walking on clouds.
—Victor Hugo
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.
—Willa Cather
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
—William Bradford
And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.
—William Cowper
O Winter! ruler of the inverted year,… I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.
—William Shakespeare
Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man's ingratitude.
—William Shakespeare
Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York,
And all the clouds that loured upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.
—William Shakespeare
Under the greenwood tree who loves to lie with me… Here shall he see no enemy but winter and rough weather.
—William Shakespeare
Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.
—Unknown
Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.
—Elizabeth Bowen
There are only two seasons—winter and Baseball.
—Bill Veeck
Write about winter in the summer. Describe Norway as Ibsen did, from a desk in Italy; describe Dublin as James Joyce did, from a desk in Paris. Willa Cather wrote her prairie novels in New York City; Mark Twain wrote Huckleberry Finn in Hartford. Recently, scholars learned that Walt Whitman rarely left his room.
—Annie Dillard