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"He that would build lastingly must lay his foundation low. The proud man, like the early shoots of a new-felled coppice, thrusts out full of sap, green in leaves, and fresh in colour, but bruises and breaks with every wind, is nipped with every little cold, and, being top-heavy, is wholly unfit for use. Whereas the humble man retains it in the root, can abide the winter?s killing blast, the ruffling concussions of the wind, and can endure far more than that which appears so flourishing." »Feltham
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"early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead." »James Thurber
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"early to rise and early to bed Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead" »James Thurber
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"early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." »Benjamin Franklin
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"The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood." »John Burroughs, The Snow-Walkers
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"The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood." »John Burroughs
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"Most men the good they have despise, And blessings which they have not prize: In winter, wish for summer?s glow, In summer, long for winter?s snow." »Sanskrit Proverb
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"When the winter comes, be very happy; because the spring comes only if the winter comes!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"In winter, play with the snow; in summer, play with the Sun! Do not wait for something to come; everything is already here! In autumn, play with the leaves, in spring, play with the flowers! In summer, don’t wait for the winter; in winter, don’t wait for the summer! Everything is already here, in this present time you live in!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor." »John Anthony Ciardi
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"early to bed and early to rise -- till you get enough money to do otherwise." »Peter's Almanac
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"If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be." »Peter McWilliams
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"I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird, and not enough the bad luck of the early worm." »Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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"Love all the seasons, because every season has its own treasures! winter does not own the treasures of the spring; the spring does not own the treasures of the winter! If you know only the autumn, you are poor; if you know only the summer, you are poor! To be rich, love all the seasons and live all the seasons! Wise man is the one who knows all the treasures of all the seasons!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Every mile is two in winter." »George Herbert
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"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant." »Anne Bradstreet
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"An old man loved is winter with flowers." »Edgar Z. Friedenberg
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"There comes a time when summer asks what you have been doing all winter." »Unknown
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"One kind word can warm three winter months." »Japanese Proverb
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"The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco." »Mark Twain
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"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face." »Victor Hugo
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"In the depth of winter, I learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." »Albert Camus
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"winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart." »Victor Hugo
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"When summer is over, winter becomes sad too, because opposites often admire each other secretly!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year." »Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonais
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"It's always too early to quit." »Norman Vincent Peale
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"It gets late early out there." »Lawrence Peter Berra
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"Spring is the time of the year, when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade." »Charles Dickens, Great expectations
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"In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." »Albert Camus
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"In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer." »Albert Camus
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