Sunday Post: Winter Quotes

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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. ~Ruth Stout


Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. ~Pietro Aretino


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


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 like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood. ~Bill Watterson


Every mile is two in winter. ~George Herbert


When the bold branches
Bid farewell to rainbow leaves -
Welcome wool sweaters.
~B. Cybrill


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


Winter dies into the spring, to be born again in the autumn. ~Marche Blumenberg


Every winter,
When the great sun has turned his face away,
The earth goes down into a vale of grief,
And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables,
Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay -
Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
~Charles Kingsley