"How did
it get so late
so soon?”
– Dr. Seuss
"There must
be something
ghostly
in the air of
Christmas —
something about
the close, muggy
atmosphere
that draws up
the ghosts, like
the dampness
of the summer
rains brings out
the frogs
and snails.”
– Jerome K. Jerome, Told After Supper
"December,
in my memory,
is white as
Lapland, though
there were no reindeers.
But there were cats.”
– Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales
"People
don't notice
whether it's
winter or summer
when they're happy”
– Anton Chekhov
"December is a
bewitching
month.”
– Joseph Coelho, A Year of Nature Poems
"The rapid
nightfall of
mid-December
had quite beset
the little village
as they
approached
it on soft feet
over a first
thin fall of
powdery snow.”
– Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
"You can't get
too much winter
in the winter.”
– Robert Frost
"Laughter
is the sun
that drives
winter from
the human face.”
– Victor Hugo
"There are
two seasons
in Scotland:
June and winter.”
–Billy Connolly