Winter is drawing near, and it’s time to start thinking about how you’re going to stay warm this season. Here are some quotes from experts who have come up with clever ideas on how to keep the cold at bay.
- “Winter is coming.” -George R. R. Martin, ‘Game Of Thrones’.
- “There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.” – Sir Robert Baden-Powell
- “If it doesn’t fit, wear a sweater!” – Unknown
- “I’m not cold at all because I’m wearing my coat outside of my clothes.” – Louis Armstrong
- “They who sing through the summer must dance in the winter.” – Italian Proverb
- “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” – Victor Hugo
- “When you sit in front of a fire in winter—you are just there in front of the fire. You don’t have to be smart or anything. The fire warms you.” ―Desmond Tutu
- “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
- “The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire… maintain a kind of summer in the midst of winter.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “She [the virtuous wife] has no fear of winter for her household, for everyone has warm clothes.” – Proverbs 31:21 NLT
- “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
- “The problem with winter sports is that–follow me closely here–they generally take place in winter.” – Dave Barry
- “The outside world is a dream. Inside, the fireplace is brightly lit . . . There’s a steaming mug in your hands, warming your fingers. There’s a friend seated across from you in the cosy chair, warming your heart.” ―Vera Nazarian
- “With winter here, it’s hugs all round.” ―Anthony T. Hincks
- “You think winter will never end, and then, when you don’t expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.” ―Wendell Berry
- “Don’t write and tell me that winter brought you only colds or the ubiquitous virus… it also brought things not to be forgotten – silver moons and snow, brilliant under stars… For the pendulum swings; nothing is static; and the road, however long, does turn.” – Faith Baldwin
- “If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.” – Murray Pura
- “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
- “In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus.
- “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” -Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Ode To The West Wind’.
- “It is only when the cold season comes that we know the pine and cypress to be evergreens.” – Chinese proverb.
- “December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory…” – John Geddes, ‘A Familiar Rain’.
- “Winter is nature’s way of saying, ‘Up yours.” Robert Byrne
- “I was just thinking, if it really is religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheist in the wintertime.” Will Rogers
- “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus
- “People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” – Anton Chekhov
- “In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” – William Blake
- “A Warrior that speaks truth cuts sharper than winter cold.” – Kevin Anytime
- “They who sing through summer must dance in the winter.” – Italian Proverb
- “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, ‘Taken Care Of’.
- “How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!” – Thomas Wentworth Higginson.
- “The cold cut like a many bladed knife.” – Israel Zangwill
- “Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer a painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.” – Stanley Horowitz
- “Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter’s evening.” – Virginia Woolf
- “Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.” – Terri Guillemets.
- “There is something strange in the silence of a winter view: Something seems to happen, but nothing happens, as if all reality is frozen!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
- “Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.” – Virginia Woolf
- “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
- “Grief is always sudden as winter, no matter how long the autumn.” – J. Aleksandr Wootton
- “The snow is sparkling like a million little suns.” – Lama Willa
- “A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky—unbidden—and seems like a thing of wonder.” – Susan Orlean
- “Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow.” – Edmund Hillary
- “For they are the knights of summer, and winter is coming.” – George R. R. Martin
- “A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.” – Carl Reiner
- “A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.” – Susan Orlean
- “Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity.” – Novala Takemoto
- “Kindness is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers.” – Kahlil Gibran
- The fire is winter’s fruit. – Arabian Proverb
- “Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.” ―George R.R. Martin
- “The truth is, in winter, the earth rejects us.” – Ruth Ellen Kocher