A Quote by Bernard Williams

Laziness has many disguises. Soon "winter doldrums" will become "spring fever."

Bernard Williams

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Bernard Williams
English - Philosopher
September 21, 1929 - June 10, 2003

Through winter-time we call on spring, And through the spring on summer call, And when the abounding hedges ring Declare that winter's best of all: And after that there's nothing good Because the spring time has not come- Not know that what disturbs our blood Is but its longing for the tomb.

William Butler Yeats

Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the changing year, and so we change; Motion so swift, we know not that we move.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

And seemingly as winter has become spring, confusion has become insight.

Andrew McMahon

HIBERNATE, v. i. To pass the winter season in domestic seclusion. There have been many singular popular notions about the hibernation of various animals. Many believe that the bear hibernates during the whole winter and subsists by mechanically sucking its paws. It is admitted that it comes out of its retirement in the spring so lean that it has to try twice before it can cast a shadow.

Ambrose Bierce

Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the eye of benevolence sparkles at the sight of happiness and plenty: in winter, compassion melts at universal calamity, and the tear of softness starts at the wailing of hunger and the cries of the creation in distress

Samuel Johnson

Once, long ago in her world, a sunny day in spring was her favorite, but now a sunny day in winter delights her more. It is the perfect metaphor for their love. Sunshine on ice. She warms his frost. He cools her fever.

Karen Marie Moning

If winter should say, 'Spring is in my heart,' who would believe winter?

Khalil Gibran

Winter isn't forever. Winter is always followed by spring. And it's how to take advantage of whatever season you're in.

Tony Robbins

There's four seasons in the UK, spring, autumn, winter and winter.

Steve Fowler

When the winter comes, be very happy; because the spring comes only if the winter comes!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Poets and songwriters speak highly of spring as one of the great joys of life in the temperate zone, but in the real world most of spring is disappointing. We looked forward to it too long, and the spring we had in mind in February was warmer and dryer than the actual spring when it finally arrives. We'd expected it to be a whole season, like winter, instead of a handful of separate moments and single afternoons.

Barbara Holland

All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.

Truman Capote

Do not wish an everlasting spring! Without tasting the winter, you cannot get pleasure out of the spring!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

winter is past, and we have a prospect of spring that is superior to spring itself.

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

Talent has the four seasons: spring, that is to say, the sowing of the seeds; summer, growth; autumn, the harvest; winter, intellectual death. But there is now and then a genius who has no winter, and, no matter how many years he may live, on the blossom of his thought no snow falls. Genius has the climate of perpetual growth.