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Christina G. Rossetti

In the bleak midwinter Frosty 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.

Steven Wright

I bought one of those little glass ball things with the snow init. You know, you turn it upside down then you turn it back andit starts to snow. I bought one, except this has a snow plowthat does it in rows.

EMERSON: _The Snow-Storm._

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven.

ELIZA COOK: _Snow._

A cheer for the snow--the drifting snow; Smoother and purer than Beauty's brow; The creature of thought scarce likes to tread On the delicate carpet so richly spread.

Carrie P. Snow

Science is the refusal to believe on the basis of hope.

Edwin Booth

An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

e e cummings

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.

SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iv., Sc. 5.

His beard was as white as snow, All flaxen was his poll.

Pamela Ribon

When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow its magical.

Margaret Atwood

The Eskimo has fifty-two names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love.

SHAKS.: _M. for M.,_ Act i., Sc. 4.

A man whose blood Is very snow-broth; one who never feels The wanton stings and motions of the sense.

SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act i., Sc. 3

Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?

John Dryden

When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell.

William Faulkner

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

Carrie P. Snow

Technology... is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.

Alice Mackenzie Swaim

Courage is not the towering oak That sees storms come and go It is the fragile blossom That opens in the snow.

CHURCHILL: _Gotham,_ Bk. i., Line 245.

The snow-drop, who, in habit white and plain, Comes on, the herald of fair Flora's train.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Advice is like snow the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

SHAKS.: _Love's L. Lost,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.

Kevin Starr

A city where everyone seemed to live in a bungalow on a broad avenue lined with palm, pepper or eucalyptus trees, where there was never any snow.

P. J. O'Rourke

Skiing consists of wearing 3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink.

Lydia Maria Child

Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.

Henry David Thoreau

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.

BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 45.

He who ascends to mountain tops shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapp'd in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below.

WILLIAM COLLEN BRYANT: _A Winter Piece._

Come when the rains Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice, While the slant sun of February pours Into the bowers a flood of light.

Jeff Valdez

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.

C. P. Snow

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

John Greenleaf Whittier

In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight... Not people die but worlds die in them.

William Shakespeare

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

You know what makes good hair for a snow man REAL hair. Don't ask me why, but it works.

Christopher Pearce Cranch

If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, This is Spr

Christopher Pearce Cranch

If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, This is Spring.

John Ruskin

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Ernest Hemingway

To stay in places and to leave, to trust, to distrust, to no longer believe and believe again, . . . to watch the snow come, to watch it go, to hear rain on a tent, to know where I can find what I want.

John Muir

Nature chose for a tool, not the earthquake or lightning to rend and split asunder, not the stormy torrent or eroding rain, but the tender snow-flowers noiselessly falling through unnumbered centuries.

Andrew Schneider

Listen, can you hear it Spring's sweet cantata. The strains of grass pushing through the snow. The song of buds swelling on the vine. The tender timpani of a baby robin's heart. Spring.

T. S. Eliot

April is the cruellest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory out of desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain.Winter kept us warm, coveringEarth in a forgetful snow, feedingA little life with dried tubers.

ROBERT BROWNING: _Rudel To The Lady of Tripoli._

I know a mount, the gracious Sun perceives First when he visits, last, too, when he leaves The world; and, vainly favored, it repays The day-long glory of his steadfast gaze By no change of its large calm front of snow.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

Tecumseh

Where today are the Pequot Where are the Narragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun. Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear to us I know you will cry with me, NEVER NEVER.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The shades of night were falling fast,As though an Alpine village passedA youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,A banner with the strange device,ExcelsiorHis brow was sad his eye beneath,Flashed like a falchion from its sheath,And like a silver clarion rungThe accents of that unknown tongue,Excelsior

HAMLIN GARLAND: _Mounting._

I mount and mount toward the sky, The eagle's heart is mine, I ride to put the clouds a-by Where silver lakelets shine. The roaring streams wax white with snow, The eagle's nest draws near, The blue sky widens, hid peaks glow, The air is frosty clear. And

TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ Pt. lxxvii., St. 1.

At Christmas play, and make good cheer, For Christmas comes but once a year. TUSSER: 500 _Pts. Good Hus.,_ Ch. 12. Again at Christmas did we weave The holly round the Christmas hearth; The silent snow possess'd the earth.

HAMLIN GARLAND: _The Clouds._

Circling the mountains the gray clouds go Heavy with storms as a mother with child, Seeking release from their burden of snow With calm slow motion they cross the wild-- Stately and sombre, they catch and cling To the barren crags of the peaks in the west

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Many people do not realize that the snowshoe can be used for a great many things besides walking on snow. For instance, it can be used to carry pancakes from the stove to the breakfast table. Also, it can be used to carry uneaten pancakes from the table to the garbage. Finally, it can be used as a kind of stainer, where you force pancakes through the strings to see if a piece of gold got in a pancake somehow.

In the bleak midwinter Frosty 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.

'Super Hereos wear snow pants?' 'When there's snow out they do.'

"Super Heroes wear snow pants?" - Hobbes "When there's snow out" - Calvin

"Super Hereos wear snow pants?" "When there's snow out they do."

"Let it snow let it snow let it snow "

Neither rain, nor snow, nor l?ne n*oi*se

Never eat yellow snow!

I used to be Snow White -- but I drifted.

'AGH! A SNOW SNAKE'S GOT ME!' -- Calvin

Canada: A few acres of snow.

If you wake up Sleepy & Grumpy, you must be Snow White.

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

When you live in Texas, every single time you see snow it???s magical.

Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.

Advice is like snow -- the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the mind.

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.

If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, This is Spring.

"Tex Ritter? Pat Buttram? Slim Whitman? Hank Snow?" -- Frank

"The discontented child cries for toasted snow." - Arabic Proverb

"Had to walk buck naked through forty miles of snow..." - Weird Al

"I wasn't sleeping - I was waiting for Windows to load" - Snow White

"Snow can wait; I forgot my mittens..." -- Tori Amos

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

"Snow is for penguins and polar bears." -- Floridian Proverb

"Spock! This is no time for snow angels!"--Keith Randall

Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. Get thee to a nunnery, go.

"Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery."-C&H

"Bother," said Pooh, as he wrote his initials in the snow.

"And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold;..."

"Bother," said Pooh, as he carved his initials in the snow

"Someday my prints will come."- Snow White at Photomat.

"Priest with dick in snow like cold one before mass"

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, and snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

"Bother", said Pooh as he cut his initials in the snow.

"Bother," said Pooh, as he cut his initials in the snow.

"Don't you eat that yellow snow." - Frank Zappa

"Bother!" said Pooh, as he cut his initials in the snow.

"Bother!" said Pooh as he cut his initials in the snow.

"Come on, Snow White! Take your best shot!" -- Julia

"AUGHHH! A SNOW SNAKES GOT ME!" - Calvin

"I was snow white, but I drifted." - Mae West

"I used to be Snow White but I drifted." -- Mae West.

"Probably had to walk a mile in the snow, too..." Richie

"Bother," said Pooh as he cut his initials in the snow.

"Your mamma was a snow blower!"

"DON'T EAT THE YELLOW SNOW" by I. P. Freely.

"What out where the husky's go, and don't you eat no yellow snow!"

"Bother!" said @F as he cut his initials in the snow

"AGH! A SNOW SNAKE'S GOT ME!" -- Calvin