William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny."
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Snow
621 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Anton Chekhov
Playwright, Short Story Writer
"The snow has not yet left the earth but spring is already asking to enter your heart."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream."
Langston Hughes
Poet, Novelist
"Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself."
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"Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude."
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"Be like snow - cold, but beautiful."
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"When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain."
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"This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed."
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"I want a soul mate who can sit me down, shut me up, tell me ten things I don’t already know, and make me laugh. I don’t care what you look like, just turn me on. And if you can do that, I will follow you on bloody stumps through the snow. I will nibble your mukluks with my own teeth. I will do your windows. I will care about your feelings. Just have something in there."
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"Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow."
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"Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years!"
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"The young mouse's eyes snapped open, clear and bright. He swung the ancient sword high and struck at the giant adder. He struck for Redwall! He struck against evil! He struck for Martin! He struck for Log-a-Log and his shrews! He struck for dead Guosim! He struck as Methuselah would have wanted him to! He struck against Cluny the Scourge and tyranny! He struck out against Captain Snow's ridicule! He struck for the world of light and freedom! He struck until his paws ached and the sword fell from them!"
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"It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir"
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"The hiss was now becoming a roar - the whole world was a vast moving screen of snow - but even now it said peace, it said remoteness, it said cold, it said sleep."
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"At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards."
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"He called her a melon, a pineapple, an olive tree, an emerald, and a fox in the snow all in the space of three seconds; he did not know whether he had heard her, tasted her, seen her, or all three together."
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"Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning."
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"His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
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"The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches."
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"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."
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"Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow."
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"Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine. Jiggling your knees blankeyed in the rain, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your brain."
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"Life is like a snowball. The important thing is finding wet snow and a really long hill."
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"Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints."
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