Fashion is part of our culture, and it's about more than just a pretty dress.
Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
Confucius
We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.
Sir Walter Scott
One Christmas was so much like another,...that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twleve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.
Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christma
Among twenty snowy mountains,The only moving thingWas the eye of the blackbird.
Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways o
In the bleak midwinterFrosty 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, MidWinter, 1
Announced by all the trumpets of the sky,Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,Seems nowhere to alight: the whited airHides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end.The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feetDelayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sitAround the radiant fireplace, enclosed In a tumultuous privacy of storm.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow,Filling the sky and earth below,Over the housetops, over the street,Over the heads of the people you meet.Dancing,Flirting,Skimming along.
Thomas J. Watson
A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!
Anon.
Snowmen fall from heaven... unassembled.
THE SNOW had begun in the gloaming,And busily all the nightHad been heaping field and highwayWith a silence deep and white.Every pine and fir and hemlockWore ermine too dear for an earl,And the poorest twig on the elm-treeWas ridged inch deep with pearl.
James Russell Lowell, The First
When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.
Lady Bird Johnson
Therefore all seasons shall be sweet to thee,Whether the summer clothe the general earthWith greenness, or the redbreast sit and singBetwixt the tufts of snow on the bare branchOf mossy apple tree.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Frost a
Have you seen but a bright lily grow,Before rude hands have touched it?Have you marked but the fall o' the snowBefore the soil hath smutched it?...O so white! O so soft! O so sweet is she!
Ben Johnson, Celebration of Char
On Linden, when the sun was low,All bloodless lay the untrodden snow,And dark as winter was the flowOf Iser, rolling rapidly.
Thomas Campbell, Hohenlinden
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, The Complete Po
The larger a man's roof, the more snow it collects.
Proverb
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, journal ent
Genius is an African who dreams up snow.
Vladimir Nabokov, The Gift
About the woodlands I will goTo see the cherry hung with snow.
A.E. Housman, A Shropshire Lad
Cold in the earth - and the deep snow piled above thee,Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave!
Emily Bront, Remembrance
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, Histories
I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
And the might of the Gentile, unsmote by the sword,Hath melted like snow in the glance of the Lord!
Lord (George Gordon) Byron, Hebr
Indeed, it is that ambiguity and ambivalence which often is so puzzling in women
Lillian Breslow Rubin, Women of
To get the whole world out of bedAnd washed, and dressed, and warmed, and fed,To work, and back to bed again,Believe me, Saul, costs worlds of pain.
John Edward Masefield, The Everl
Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader
Lionel Trilling, Notebook entry,
... in the working class, the process of building a family, of making a living for it, of nurturing and maintaining the individuals in it
Lillian Breslow Rubin, Worlds of
To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to diligence, or the heights inaccessible to perseverance, is to submit tamely to the tyranny of fancy, and enchain the mind in voluntary shackles.
Samuel Johnson
We play make believe, pretend to take ourselves and each other seriously--to love each other, hate each other--but then--it isn't true. It isn't true, we don't care at all!
Ugo Betti, The Inquiry 19441945
There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly required than a defence of bores. When Byron divided humanity into the bores and bored, he omitted to notice that the higher qualities exist entirely in the bores, the lower qualities in the bored, among whom he counted himself. The bore, by his starry enthusiasm, his solemn happiness, may, in some sense, have proved himself poetical. The bored has certainly proved himself prosaic.
G. K. Chesterton, Heretics
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Plutarch
He made the city Athens, great as it was when he took it, the greatest and richest of all cities, and grew to be superior in power to kings and tyrants. Some of these actually appointed him guardian of their sons, but he did not make his estate a single drachma greater than it was when his father left it to him.
Thank Heaven! the crisis --The danger, is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last --, and the fever called Living is conquered at last.
Edgar Allan Poe
To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.
Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard.
The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid.
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery -- by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press -- their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner.
After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.
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