quotes on cold weather

If you have one eye on yesterday, and one eye on tomorrow, you're going to be cockeyed today. ~Author Unknown



No modern idea has affected history more than the passion of nationalism. ~Charles R. Poinsatte, Understanding History Through the American Experience



Dancing is the world's favorite metaphor. ~ Kristy Nilsson



In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future. ~Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion



It needs to become as easy to get hold of a condom in a poor country as Coca-Cola. ~Clare Short



The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. ~Leon Edel



In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled. ~Paul Eldridge



A son is a son till he takes him a wife, a daughter is a daughter all of her life. ~Author Unknown



The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time.... ~Carl Jung



The bicycle, the bicycle surely, should always be the vehicle of novelists and poets. ~Christopher Morley



Curlers rock and roll! ~Saying of the sport



The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her. ~Marcelene Cox



For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. ~Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, 1974



Addictions do come in handy sometimes: at least you have to get out of bed for them. ~Martin Amis



Man was predestined to have free will. ~Hal Lee Luyah



Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. ~Henry David Thoreau, "Chesuncook," The Maine Woods, 1848



Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother. ~Kahlil Gibran



Expect an early death - it will keep you busier. ~Martin H. Fischer



I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his Works respectfully quoted by other learned Authors. ~Benjamin Franklin, "Preface," Poor Richard Improved, wording verified by Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations



No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. ~John Donne