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Many people adore the snow

• I put up a petition annually, for as much snow, hail, frost, or storm, of one kind or other, as the skies can possibly afford us. Surely every body is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a winter fire-side: candles at four o’clock, warm hearth-rugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies on the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without… Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
• I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost. Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Every Autumn now my thoughts return to snow. Snow is something I identify myself with. Like my father, I am a snow person. Charlie English
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Snow is a miracle of frozen water

• Water is everywhere and in all living things – we cannot be seperated from water. No water, no life.   Water comes in many forms – liquid, vapor, ice, snow, fog, rain, hail.  But no matter the form, it’s still water. Robert Fulghum
• Snow is water, and ice is water, and water is water, these three are one. Joseph Dare
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Snow can be magical …

• Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people’s legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world. Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen
• Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity. Novala Takemoto
• Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality. Andy Goldsworthy
• The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? B. Priestley
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… and wondrous

• A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky – unbidden – and seems like a thing of wonder. Susan Orlean
• The very fact of snow is an amazement. Roger Ebert
• Look up at the miracle of the falling snow,—the air a dizzy maze of whirling, eddying flakes, noiselessly transforming the world, the exquisite crystals dropping in ditch and gutter, and disguising in the same suit of spotless livery all objects upon which they fall. John Burroughs
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Snow covers the world in white …

• The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches. E. E. Cummings
• Where does the white go when the snow melts? Hugh Kieffer
• Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblems right meet of decency does yield. William Shenstone

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… making everything look clean

• Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean. Mehmet Murat Ilan

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Snow is one of nature’s great scenes …

• As artist Nature splashes color across the vast canvas of the sky with the radiance and splendor of sunrise and sunset. She arches rainbows against the passing storm, creates flowers and foliage, sets autumn woods on fire with the beauty of turning leaves and touches mountaintops with snow crystals. Wilferd A. Peterson
• The snow, the wind, the sun and the sounds of nature, can all be reminders to you that you’re an integral part of the natural world. Wayne Dyer
• Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces, dressing up some scene for our entertainment. Lately we had a leafy wilderness; now bare twigs begin to prevail, and soon she will surprise us with a mantle of snow. Some green she thinks so good for our eyes that, like blue, she never banishes it entirely from our eyes, but has created evergreens. Henry David Thoreau
• Many a fine sermon doth Nature preach on the ever-new, forever-transgressed text of silence. It is not the roaring thunder that smites, but the silent lightning; and gravity, which bindeth worlds together and keepeth them from falling asunder, is ever silent. Prettily, too, doth the silent snow cover the ground, and make it like unto a table spread for a feast: unlike the noisy rain, which, after making a goodly number of puddles, quickly runneth off. Ivan Panin
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… and the beauty of snow leaves its impress on the soul

• Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It’s late afternoon – the sun is just setting (a cold yellow colour) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my window seat using the last light to write to you.  Jean Webster
• Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes – every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Orison Swett Marten
• The snow is sparkling like a million little suns. Lama Willa Miller
• There is nothing in the world more beautiful than the forest clothed to its very hollows in snow. It is the still ecstasy of nature, wherein every spray, every blade of grass, every spire of reed, every intricacy of twig, is clad with radiance. William Sharp
• I wish that you could have seen the edge of the snow-cloud which hovered, oh, so soothingly, down to the grand Pilot Peak brows, discharging its heaven-begotten snows with such unmistakable gentleness and moving, perhaps with conscious love from pine to pine as if bestowing separate and independent blessings upon each. In a few hours we climbed under and into this glorious storm-cloud. What a harvest of crystal flowers, and what wind songs were gathered from the spirey firs and the long fringy arms of the Lambert pine. John Muir
• The snow was endless, a heavy blanket on the outdoors; it had a way about it. A beauty. But I knew that, like many things, beauty could be deceiving.  Cambria Hebert, Whiteout
• It was one of those days when it’s a minute away from snowing and there’s this electricity in the air, you can almost hear it. And this bag was, like, dancing with me. Like a little kid begging me to play with it. For fifteen minutes. And that’s the day I knew there was this entire life behind things, and… this incredibly benevolent force, that wanted me to know there was no reason to be afraid, ever. Video’s a poor excuse, I know. But it helps me remember… and I need to remember… Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world I feel like I can’t take it, like my heart’s going to cave in. American Beauty
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Snow is exhilarating …

• The sunbeams are welcome now. They seem like pure electricity—like friendly and recuperating lightning. Are we led to think electricity abounds only in summer, when we see in the storm-clouds as it were, the veins and ore-beds of it? I imagine it is equally abundant in winter, and more equable and better tempered. Who ever breasted a snowstorm without being excited and exhilarated, as if this meteor had come charged with latent auroræ of the North, as doubtless it has? It is like being pelted with sparks from a battery. John Burroughs
• Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin
• Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery. Bill Watterson
• Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it. Edmund Hillary

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… especially the thrill of first snow

• When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I’ll know I’m growing old. Lady Bird Johnson
• The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? J.B. Priestley
• Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder–no matter how old you became and how much you’d seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered. Candace Bushnell, Lipstick Jungle
• In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them. Yevgeny Yevtushenko

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Snow makes us feel like children again

• One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day. Susan Orlean
• I had forgotten how thrilling a snow day is until my son started school, and as much as he loves it, he swoons at the idea of a free day arriving unexpectedly, laid out like a gift. Susan Orlean
• When I was a child and the snow fell, my mother always rushed to the kitchen and made snow ice cream and divinity fudge- egg whites, sugar and pecans, mostly. It was a lark then and I always associate divinity fudge with snowstorms. Eudora Welty
• Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood. Andy Goldsworthy
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Snow is the stuff of Christmas

• Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it ‘white’. Bing Crosby
• At Christmas I no more desire a rose – Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows. William Shakespeare
• Good King Wenceslas looked out, On the Feast of Stephen; When the snow lay round about, Deep and crisp and even. John Mason Neale
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Snow brings people together

• I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas: It brings people together while time stands still. Cozy couples lazily meandered the streets and children trudged sleds and chased snowballs. No one seemed to be in a rush to experience anything other than the glory of the day, with each other, whenever and however it happened. Rachel Cohn
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Snow brings a certain sense of comfort and well being

• Thanksgiving is the winding up of autumn. The leaves are off the trees, except here and there on a beech or an oak; there is nothing left on the boughs but a few nuts and empty birds’ nests. The earth looks desolate, and it will be a comfort to have the snow on the ground, and to hear the merry jingle of the sleigh-bells. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• The cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove. John Burroughs
• He brewed his tea in a blue china pot, poured it into a chipped white cup with forget-me-nots on the handle, and dropped in a dollop of honey and cream. He sat by the window, cup in hand, watching the first snow fall. “I am,” he sighed deeply, “contented as a clam. I am a most happy man.” Ethel Pochocki
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Snow covers the life that blooms through in the Spring

• Under the giving snow blossoms a daring spring. Terri Guillemets
• There is still vitality under the winter snow, even though to the casual eye it seems to be dead. Agnes Sligh Turnbull
• Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun. Janet Fitch
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There is nothing like walking in the snow …

• Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snow in the field and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature.  Be cold and hungry and weary.  Henry David Thoreau
• I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. Henry David Thoreau
• In what bold relief stand out the lives of all walkers of the snow! The snow is a great tell-tale, and blabs as effectually as it obliterates. I go into the woods, and know all that has happened. I cross the fields, and if only a mouse has visited his neighbor, the fact is chronicled. John Burroughs
• About the woodlands I will go / To see the cherry hung with snow. E. Housman
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… or throwing a snow ball …

• The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.  Doug Larson
• Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball. Mitzi Chandler
• A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship. Markus Zusak
• The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause. Gary D. Schmidt

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… or writing your name in the snow …

• Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for when they scrawl their names in the snow. Margaret Atwood

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… or making snow angels

• When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.

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… or skiing down a snow-covered hill

• The sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke – Glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the powder with the signature of their run. Tim Cahill

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Snow may make everything look the same …

• The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only. Joseph Wood Krutch
• There’s one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor’s. Clyde Moore

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… but no two snowflakes are ever the same

• I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops. Nikki Giovanni

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Of course, not everyone is a fan of the snow

• A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. Carl Reiner
• Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, / When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, / And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, / Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom. Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen
• I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it’s white, it’s snow-white. Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
• Until I came to Canada I never knew ‘snow’ was a four letter word. Alberto Manguel

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Snow means cold and barren winter

• And finally Winter, with its bitin’, whinin’ wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow. Roy Bean
• At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow. Gary Zukav
• Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow. Simon Dach
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Snow requires endless shovelling

• When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.
• Let every man shovel out his own snow and the whole city will be passable. Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Snowflakes are the perfect metaphor for uniqueness and individuality

• Would you compare a snowflake to a snowflake to decide which was more beautiful and unique? No two snowflakes are the same. Danielle LaPorte
• Is the tulip superior to the rose? Are the mountains more majestic than the sea? Which snowflake is the most magnificent? Is it possible that they are all magnificent – and that, celebrating their magnificence together, they create an awesome display. See the beauty and the wonder of all whose lives you touch. For you are each wondrous indeed, yet no-one more wondrous than another. And you will oneday melt into Oneness, and know then that you form together a single stream Neale Donald Walsch
• Often what we think of as the things ‘wrong’ with us are only our expressions of our individuality. This is our uniqueness and what is special about us. Nature never repeats itself. Since time began on this planet, there have never been two snowflakes alike or two raindrops the same. And every daisy is different from every other daisy. Our fingerprints are different, and we are different. We are meant to be different. When we can accept this, then there is not competition and no comparison. To try to be like another is to shrivel our soul. We have come to this planet to express who we are. Louise L. Hay
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Snowflakes are kisses from heaven

• Do you hear the snow against the windowpanes, Kitty? How nice and soft it sounds! Just as if some one was kissing the window all over outside. I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, ’Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.’ And when they wake up in the summer, Kitty, they dress themselves all in green, and dance about—whenever the wind blows… Lewis Carroll
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Snowflakes are full of divinity …

• Nature is full of genius, full of divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. Henry David Thoreau
• I tell you, I am in every flower, every rainbow, every star in the heavens, and everything in and on every planet rotating around every star.  I am the whisper of the wind, the warmth of your sun, the incredible individuality and the extraordinary perfection of every snowflake.   I am the majesty in the soaring flight of eagles, and the innocence of the doe in the field; the courage of lions, the wisdom of the ancient ones.  Neale Donald Walsch

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… and provide a metaphor for the divine order of the universe

• Behind the sometimes seemingly random or even chaotic succession of events in our lives as well as in the world lies concealed the unfolding of a higher order and purpose. This is beautifully expressed in the Zen saying “The snow falls, each flake in its appropriate place.” We can never understand this higher order through thinking about it because whatever we think about is content; whereas, the higher order emanates from the formless realm of consciousness, from universal intelligence. But we can glimpse it, and more than that, align ourselves with it, which means be conscious participants in the unfolding of that higher purpose. Eckhart Tolle
• The snow falls, each flake in its appropriate place. Zen saying
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Snowflakes provide a metaphor for teamwork

• Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together. Vesta M. Kelly
• No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Snow itself also provides ample metaphors for life

• Advice is like snow — the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell. John Dryden
• Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Good will works as silently as the sun and with as much power. It thaws the ice and snow of resistance and indifference.  It warms and wins human hearts.  It draws forth the best in others as flowers are drawn from the soil. It stimulates growth.  Wilferd A. Peterson
• Hold fast to dreams for when dreams go life is a barren field frozen with snow. Langston Hughes
• To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color, is like living in Alaska and being against snow. William Faulkner
• An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow. Lawrence Barrett
• Money is only congealed snow. Dorothy Parker
• The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. George William Curtis
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Snow is a metaphor for thought

• Notice what’s happening in your head before your thoughts have a chance to build any momentum. The sooner you catch yourself in the act of creating your mental snowball, the easier it is to stop.  Richard Carlson
• Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem. William Hamilton Gibson
• You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It’s like that. Gary Larson
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Snow is a metaphor for fleetingness and impermanence

• Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand- and melting like a snowflake. Marie Beyon Ray
• But pleasures are like poppies spread–You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed; Or like the snow falls in the river–A moment white — then melts for ever. Robert Burns
• Time is like a snowflake–it melts away while we try to decide what to do with it.
• My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever. George R.R. Martin
• We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. Walter Scott
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Snow is a metaphor for both perfection and imperfection

• In beauty, faults conspicuous grow; the smallest speck is seen on snow. John Gay
• Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean. Confucius
• Let our lives be pure as snow-fields, where our footsteps leave a mark, but not a stain. Madame Swetchine
• He who ascends to mountain tops, shall find, The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Lord Byron

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Snow is a metaphor for being yourself and letting go of your self-consciousness

• Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. William Alexander
• The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. Lao Tzu
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Snow is a metaphor for certain virtue…

• Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. Alice M. Swaim
• Kindness is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers.
• Genius is an African who dreams up snow. Vladimir Nabokov
• Courtesies cannot be borrowed like snow shovels; you must have some of your own. John Wanamaker
• As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool. Bible
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… and a metaphor for certain vices and bad habits

• In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage – so long are you young.  When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old.  Douglas MacArthur
• Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it’s set a rolling it must increase. Charles Caleb Colton
• Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball. Mitzi Chandler
• Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep. Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean. Confucius
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Snow is a metaphor for old age

• To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Love with old men is as the sun upon the snow, it dazzles more than it warms them. Jonathan Petit Senn
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Snow is a metaphor for love

• The eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. Margaret Atwood
• Love with old men is as the sun upon the snow, it dazzles more than it warms them. Jonathan Petit Senn
• As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. William Shakespeare
• The first snow is like first love. Do you remember your first snow? Lara Biyutus
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Snow is a metaphor for tears

• All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person. Hermann Hesse
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Snow is a metaphor for sin

• Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time. Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned. Bible
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• A lot of people like snow but I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.  Carl Reiner
• A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship. Markus Zusak
• A student undergoing a word-association test was asked why a snowstorm put him in mind of sex. He replied frankly:  “Because everything does.”  Honor Tracy
• Blondes make the best victims. They’re like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints. Alfred Hitchcock
• Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. Jeff Valdez
• Cats are smarter than dogs. You can’t get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. Jeff Valdez
• Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the sidewalk before it stops snowing.  Phyllis Diller
• Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow  Frank Zappa
• Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery. Bill Watterson
• How do you scare a snowman? You get a hairdryer!
• I used to be snow white, but I drifted. Mae West
• If kisses were snowflakes, I’d send you a blizzard.
• It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car yet are unable to understand the lawnmower snowblower or vacuum cleaner.  Ben Bergor
• Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, “I’m going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that’s tough. I am going to snow anyway. Maya Angelou
• Never catch snowflakes with your tongue until all the birds have gone south for the winter.
• Sex is like snow, you never know how many inches you’re going to get or how long it will last.
• Snow always inspires such awe in me. Consider one tiny snowflake so delicate so fragile. And yet let a billion or so come together through the majestic force of nature and they can really screw up an entire city!  Betty White
• Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough. Earl Wilson
• Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough. Dave Barr
• Snowmen fall from heaven… unassembled.
• The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.  Doug Larson
• The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause. Gary D. Schmidt
• The only way I’d worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not on theirs.  Tommy Lasorda
• The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches. E. E. Cummings
• There’s one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor’s. Clyde Moore
• Two snowmen in a field, one turned to the other and said “I don’t know about you but I can smell carrots!”
• What happened when the snowman annoyed the snowwoman?  She gave him the cold shoulder.
• What is the difference between snowmen and snowwomen? Snowballs.
• Who’s there? Snow Snow who? Snow business like show business!
• Why did the snowman smile? Because the snowblower is coming.
• Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball. Mitzi Chandler

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