Ah for pittie, wil ranke Winters rage, These bitter blasts neuer ginne tasswage? The keene cold blowes throug my beaten hyde, All as I were through the body gryde. My ragged rontes all shiver and shake, As doen high Towers in an earthquake: They wont in the wind wagge their wrigle tailes, Perke as Peacock: but nowe it auales. Edmund Spenser
I did not dread the dark winter as people do when they have lost their youth and live alone in some great city.
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Siegfried Sassoon
They're the first crew I've ever had and most of them even call me Captain. I'm going to miss them.
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Marissa Meyer
Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.
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Sinclair Lewis
When Josey woke up and saw the feathery frost on her windowpane, she smiled. Finally, it was cold enough to wear long coats and tights. It was cold enough for scarves and shirts worn in layers, like camouflage. It was cold enough for her lucky...
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Sarah Addison Allen
Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.
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Robert Byrne
More Quotes By Edmund Spenser
Aye me, how many perils do enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall? Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And steadfast truth acquite him out of all.
Yet gold all is not, that doth gold seem, Nor all good knights, that shake well spear and shield: The worth of all men by their end esteem, And then praise, or due reproach them yield.
Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it, For that your self ye daily such doe see: But the trew fayre, that is the gentle wit, And vertuous mind, is much more praysd of me. For all the rest, how ever fayre it be,...
I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.
Why then should witless man so much misweene That nothing is but that which he hath seene?
