Rare Winter Visitor

Famous quotes containing the words rare, winter and/or visitor:

    “It is a rare life that remains well-ordered even in private.”
    —Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    “The Roman rule was, to teach a boy nothing that he could not learn standing. The old English rule was, “All summer in the field, and all winter in the study.” And it seems as if a man should learn to plant, or to fish, or to hunt, that he might secure his subsistence at all events, and not be painful to his friends and fellow men.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Beauty is ever to the lonely mind
    A shadow fleeting; she is never plain.
    She is a visitor who leaves behind
    The gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.”
    —Robert Nathan (1894–1985)