funny quotes on winter

A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Always be shorter than anybody dared to hope. ~Lord Reading, on speechmaking



I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. ~James McNeill Whistler



Retirement itself is the best gift. No gold watch could ever top it. ~Abigail Charleson



War hath no fury like a noncombatant. ~Charles Edward Montague, Disenchantment



Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker. ~Allen Tate



No matter how hard you hug your money, it never hugs back. ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.



If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



When I learned to sew, I forgot how to cook. ~Author Unknown



History gives answers only to those who know how to ask questions. ~Hajo Holborn, History and the Humanities



I will never admit that the beloved flag is to me merely the symbol of a land where I can live in rich content and make money. ~Henry Cabot Lodge



Noise, crowding, pollution, and the sheer rush of our complex, modern society are rapidly becoming as oppressive to many individuals as the worst kind of political dictatorship. ~Thomas F. Eagleton



A smile is a curve that sets everything straight. ~Phyllis Diller



I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life. ~Sydney Smith



When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, "Ours." ~Vine Deloria, Jr.



Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow. ~John Mariucci



The sea hath no king but God alone. ~Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The White Ship The sea pronounces something, over and over, in a hoarse whisper; I cannot quite make it out. ~Annie Dillard



Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens. ~Douglas Jerrold



Santa Claus has the right idea: Visit people once a year. ~Victor Borge



The world is a grindstone and life is your nose. ~Fred Allen