funny quotes on winter

When Christmas bells are swinging above the fields of snow, we hear sweet voices ringing from lands of long ago, and etched on vacant places are half-forgotten faces of friends we used to cherish, and loves we used to know. ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox



The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. ~Seneca



Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the reflexions, as the meat is sometimes by the fat. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



I'm not a doctor and I don't know the technical terminology, but I do know that sunshine activates our happiness glands. ~Jessi Lane Adams



Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. ~Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld



Not on one strand are all life's jewels strung. ~William Morris



And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind. ~Dave Barry



I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. ~Abraham Lincoln



It takes one woman twenty years to make a man of her son - and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. ~Helen Rowland



The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic. ~Henry Ward Beecher



Bound as our lives are to the tyranny of time, it is through what we know of history that we are delivered from our bonds and escape - into time. ~A.L. Rowse, The Use of History



Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



A child enters your home and for the next twenty years makes so much noise you can hardly stand it. The child departs, leaving the house so silent you think you are going mad. ~John Andrew Holmes



The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. ~James Bryce



Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms. ~William J. Bennett



Of wet and wildness? Let them be left,



A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying. ~Lawrence Durrell



That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong. ~William J.H. Boetcker



Camping: The art of getting closer to nature while getting farther away from the nearest cold beverage, hot shower and flush toilet. ~Author Unknown



While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth? ~George Bernard Shaw