<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Winter - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is a season of recovery and preparation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66733]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66733</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66732]]></link><description><![CDATA[I grew up in New Hampshire. My closest neighbor was a mile away. The deer and the raccoons were my friends. So I would spend time walking through the woods, looking for the most beautiful tropical thing that can survive the winter in the woods in New Hampshire.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66732</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66731]]></link><description><![CDATA[And finally Winter, with its bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66730]]></link><description><![CDATA[People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/66730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65949]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65949</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is not a season, it's an occupation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65778]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65777]]></link><description><![CDATA[People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65777</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65774]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/65774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62716]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62717]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62718]]></link><description><![CDATA[Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter is icumen in, Lhude sing Goddamm,  Raineth drop and staineth slop,   And how the wind doth ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61724]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter is icumen in, Lhude sing Goddamm,  Raineth drop and staineth slop,   And how the wind doth ramm!    Sing: Goddamm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan,  Earth stood hard as iron,   Water like a stone; ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61725]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan,  Earth stood hard as iron,   Water like a stone;    Snow had fallen, snow on snow,     Snow on snow,      In the bleak midwinter,       Long ago.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow;  "I hear the first young hard-bell ring, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61721]]></link><description><![CDATA[Up rose the wild old winter-king, And shook his beard of snow;  "I hear the first young hard-bell ring,   'Tis time for me to go!    Northward o'er the icy rocks,     Northward o'er the sea,      My daughter comes with sunny locks:       This land's too warm for me!"]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61721</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end.  A candle burned ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61722]]></link><description><![CDATA[It snowed and snowed, the whole world over, Snow swept the world from end to end.  A candle burned on the table;   A candle burned.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse;  Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61723]]></link><description><![CDATA[But see, Orion sheds unwholesome dews; Arise, the pines a noxious shade diffuse;  Sharp Boreas blows, and nature feels decay,   Time conquers all, and we must time obey.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61723</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away,  The earth goes down into a vale of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61720]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away,  The earth goes down into a vale of grief,   And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables,    Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay--     Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[His breath like silver arrows pierced the air, The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet,  His finger on ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61719]]></link><description><![CDATA[His breath like silver arrows pierced the air, The naked earth crouched shuddering at his feet,  His finger on all flowing waters sweet   Forbidding lay--motion nor sound was there:--    Nature was frozen dead,--and still and slow,     A winding sheet fell o'er her body fair,      Flaky and soft, from his wide wings of snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons--  That oppresses, like the Heft   Of Cathedral Tunes-- ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61716]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons--  That oppresses, like the Heft   Of Cathedral Tunes--]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though;  He will not see ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61717]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61718]]></link><description><![CDATA[On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every Fern is tucked and set, 'Neath coverlet,  Downy and soft and warm. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61714]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every Fern is tucked and set, 'Neath coverlet,  Downy and soft and warm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . .  I crown thee king of intimate delights,  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61715]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . .  I crown thee king of intimate delights,   Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness,    And all the comforts that the lowly roof     Of undisturb'd Retirement, and the hours      Of long uninterrupted evening, know.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61711]]></link><description><![CDATA[Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go;  The horse knows the way   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go;  The horse knows the way   To carry the sleigh,    Through the white and drifted snow.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61713]]></link><description><![CDATA[The frost performs its secret ministry, Unhelped by any wind.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look! the massy trunks Are cased in the pure crystal; each light spray,  Nodding and tinkling in the breath ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61708]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look! the massy trunks Are cased in the pure crystal; each light spray,  Nodding and tinkling in the breath of heaven,   Is studded with its trembling water-drops,    That glimmer with an amethystine light.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright  From the ice roof depending; and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61709]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yet all how beautiful! Pillars of pearl Propping the cliffs above, stalactites bright  From the ice roof depending; and beneath,   Grottoes and temples with their crystal spires    And gleaming columns radiant in the sun.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61709</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61710]]></link><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When now, unsparing as the scourge of war, Blasts follow blasts and groves dismantled roar;  Around their home the ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61706]]></link><description><![CDATA[When now, unsparing as the scourge of war, Blasts follow blasts and groves dismantled roar;  Around their home the storm-pinched cattle lows,   No nourishment in frozen pasture grows;    Yet frozen pastures every morn resound     With fair abundance thund'ring to the ground.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61706</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61707]]></link><description><![CDATA[And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms. . . . For summer being done, all things stand upon them with a weather-beaten face, and the whole country, full of woods and thickets, represented a wild and savage hue.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[These Winter nights against my window-pane Nature with busy pencil draws designs  Of ferns and blossoms and fine spray ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61704]]></link><description><![CDATA[These Winter nights against my window-pane Nature with busy pencil draws designs  Of ferns and blossoms and fine spray of pines,   Oak-leaf and acorn and fantastic vines,    Which she will make when summer comes again--     Quaint arabesques in argent, flat and cold,      Like curious Chinese etchings.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark,  Deep-founded habitation. Shake ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61705]]></link><description><![CDATA[O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark,  Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs,   Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/61705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore  Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer   ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56713]]></link><description><![CDATA[Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore  Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer   Curves his white bastions with projected roof    Round every windward stake, or tree, or door.     Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work      So fanciful, so savage, naught cares he       For number or proportion.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56713</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,  Seems nowhere to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56712]]></link><description><![CDATA[Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields,  Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air   Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven,    And veils the farmhouse at the garden's end.     The sled and traveller stopped, the courier's feet      Delayed, all friends shut out, the housemates sit       Around the radiant fireplace, enclosed        In a tumultuous privacy of storm.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/56712</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Every mile is two in winter. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49217]]></link><description><![CDATA[Every mile is two in winter.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/49217</guid></item></channel></rss>