Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing.
—Phyllis Diller (b.1917) American Actor, Comedian
There was a small boy of Quebec
Who was buried in snow to his neck
When they said, “Are you friz?”
He replied, “Yes, I is—
But we don’t call this cold in Quebec.”
—Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) British Writer, Poet, Novelist, Short Story Author
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-born American Novelist
Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-born British Philosopher
When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I’ll know I’m growing old.
—Lady Bird Johnson (1912–2007) First Lady of the United States, Conservationist
Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American Poet
In the bleak midwinter
Frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron,
Water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow,
Snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter,
Long ago.
—Christina Rossetti (1830–94) English Poet, Hymn Writer
Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
—Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
Have you seen but a bright lily grow,
Before rude hands have touched it?
Have you marked but the fall o’ the snow
Before the soil hath smutched it?
O so white! O so soft! O so sweet is she!
—Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English Dramatist, Poet, Actor
THE SNOW had begun in the gloaming,
And busily all the night
Had been heaping field and highway
With a silence deep and white.
Every pine and fir and hemlock
Wore ermine too dear for an earl,
And the poorest twig on the elm-tree
Was ridged inch deep with pearl.
—James Russell Lowell (1819–91) American Poet, Critic
One Christmas was so much like another,…that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.
—Dylan Thomas (1914–53) Welsh Poet, Author
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
—Stanislaw Jerzy Lec (1909–1966) Polish Aphorist, Poet
Money is only congealed snow.
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American Humorist, Journalist
The larger a man’s roof, the more snow it collects.
—Common Proverb
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
—John Ruskin (1819–1900) English Writer, Art Critic
Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And shed their substance on the floating air.
—George Crabbe
From my experience, not one in twenty marries the first love; we build statues of snow, and weep to see them melt.
—Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Lawyer
Come, night; come, Romeo; come, thou day in night; For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night Whiter than new snow upon a raven’s back.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
This is the Hour of Lead—
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow—
First—Chill—then Stupor—then the letting go—.
—Emily Dickinson (1830–86) American Poet
The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
—Margaret Atwood (b.1939) Canadian Writer, Poet, Critic
I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822) English Poet, Dramatist, Essayist, Novelist
When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.
—John Dryden (1631–1700) English Poet, Literary Critic, Playwright
Cold in the earth – and the deep snow piled above thee,
Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave!
—Emily Bronte (1818–48) English Novelist, Poet
These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.
—Herodotus (c.485–425 BCE) Ancient Greek Historian
About the woodlands I will go
To see the cherry hung with snow.
—A. E. Housman (1859–1936) English Poet, Classical Scholar
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, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
—J. B. Priestley (1894–1984) English Novelist, Playwright, Critic
Before you love, Learn to run through the snow Leaving no footprint
—Turkish Proverb
Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough.
—Earl Wilson (1907–87) American Broadway Gossip Columnist
The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
—Joseph Wood Krutch (1893–1970) American Writer, Critic, Naturalist
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