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- Blow, blow, thou winter wind! Thou art not so unkind as Man's ingratitude.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), As You Like It, Act II, sc. 7
- Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; but riches fineless is as poor as winter to him that ever that ever fears he shall be poor.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Othello, Act III, sc. 3
- A merry heart goes all the day, your sad tires in a mile-a.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Winter's Tale, Act IV, sc. 3
- Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Sonnet LVI
- Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this son of York, And all the clouds that loured upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), Richard III, Act I, sc. I
- What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot
- I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.
- William F. Claire
- Some rainy winter Sundays when there's a little boredom, you should always carry a gun. Not to shoot yourself, but to know exactly that you're always making a choice.
- Lina Wertmuller
- What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot's last words (1890) (Blackfoot warrior and orator)
- When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident... or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.
- E. J. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic
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