1. Winter is nature’s way of saying, ‘Up yours.’

- Robert Byrne

2. 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.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

- Markus Zuzak

4. Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.

- Deborah Kerr

5. I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

- T.S. Eliot

6. Snow brings a special quality with it—the power to stop life as you know it dead in its tracks.

- Nancy Hatch Woodward

7. A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.

- Patricia Briggs

8. I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter’s evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream… I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people’s tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.

- Mark Twain

9. A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

- Carl Reiner

10. They who sing through the summer must dance in the winter.

- Italian Proverb

11. Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

- Elizabeth Bowen

12. Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s ingratitude.

- William Shakespeare

13. Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.

- Sydney J. Harris

14. When I was young, I loved summer and hated winter. When I got older I loved winter and hated summer. Now that I’m even older, and wiser, I hate both summer and winter.

- Jarod Kintz

15. Nothing burns like the cold.

- George R.R. Martin

16. January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.

- Sara Coleridge

17. 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

18. 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

19. There is no winter without snow, no spring without sunshine, and no happiness without companions.

- Korean Proverb

20. At this season of the year, darkness is a more insistent thing than cold. The days are short as any dream.

- E.B. White

21. If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.

- Murray Pura

22. I pray this winter be gentle and kind–a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.

- John Geddes

23. Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.

- Alex Guarnaschelli

24. In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

- Henry Rollins

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

- Victor Hugo

26. Snow isn’t just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a mining town, but also of a kind of weary familiarity, a taken-for-granted quality to which our eyes are all too susceptible.

- John Burnside

27. It’s the most wonderful time of the year! There’ll be parties for hosting, marshmallows for toasting, and caroling out in the snow.

- Andy Williams, It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The

28. Blow ye winds, like the trumpet blows, but without that noise.

- Jack Handley

29. There’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you’re special.

- Carol Rifka Brunt

30. To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

- Aristotle

31. I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas. It brings people together while time stands still.

- Rachel Cohn

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

- Victor Hugo

33. The snow is sparkling like a million little suns.

- Lama Willa

34. We feel cold, but we don’t mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn’t feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It’s worth being cold for that.

- Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

35. I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.

- Bob Seger

36. Kindness is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers.

- Kahlil Gibran

37. I love the scents of winter! For me, it’s all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce.

- Taylor Swift

38. Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.

- Terri Guillemets

39. Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow.

- Edmund Hillary

40. When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.

- Unknown

41. Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.

- Sara Raasch

42. A snowflake is one of God’s most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!

- Unknown

43. Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o’clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.

- Thomas de Quincey

44. We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.

- Garry Zukhav

45. Advice is like the snow. The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

46. Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

- Paul Theroux

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

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

48. I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it; the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.

- Andrew Wyeth

49. 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

50. Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity.

- Novala Takemoto

51. How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!

- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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

- Hal Borland

53. Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.

- Gustave Flaubert, November

54. Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.

- Andy Goldsworthy

55. In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

- Ben Aaronovitch

56. You can’t get too much winter in the winter.

- Robert Frost

57. That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.

- Ali Smith

58. I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.

- Jack Kerouac

59. Hear! hear!’ screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, ‘winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it.’

- Henry David Thoreau

60. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

- Albert Camus

61. Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.

- Richard Adams

62. It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

- Charles Dickens

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

- Anton Chekov

64. To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.

- W. J. Vogel

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

- Will Rogers

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

- Dave Barry

67. Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people’s legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.

- Sarah Addison Allen

68. The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different.

- J.B. Priestley

69. 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.

- Candace Bushnell

70. Winter is coming.

- George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

71. The color of springtime is flowers; the color of winter is in our imagination.

- Terri Guillemets

72. The fire is winter’s fruit.

- Arabian Proverb

73. A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky—unbidden—and seems like a thing of wonder.

- Susan Orlean

74. Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour.

- John Boswell

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

- William Blake

76. I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.’

- Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

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

- John Steinbeck

78. 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