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  • It was no summer progress. A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just, the worst time of the year, to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in. The ways deep, the weather sharp, the days short, the sun farthest off in solstitio brumali, the very dead of winter. See Eliot 306:73.

    - Lancelot Andrewes
      Of the Nativity, sermon15.

  •    Back and side go bare, go bare, Both foot and hand go cold; But, belly,God send thee good ale enough, Whether it be new or old.

    -Anonymous
    c.1575  Song, included in the play Gammer Gurton's Needle, act 2. William Stevenson (c.1530^75) and John Still (1543^1608) have both been credited with authorship of the play, but the song probably predates it.

  • Give them the cold steel, boys!

    - Lewis Addison Armistead
      Attributed, during the  American Civil War. US  cyclist.  He  won  theTour  de  France  a  record  six  times  from 1999 to 2004.

  • 'Ye can call it influenza if ye like,'said Mrs Machin.'There was no influenza in my young days.We called a cold a cold.'

    - (Enoch) Arnold Bennett
    The Card, ch.8.

  • I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spew thee out of my mouth.

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    Revelation 3:15^16.

  • Cold inthe earthand the deepsnow piled abovethee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime's all-serving wave?

    - EmilyJane Bronte« 
      'Remembrance', in Poems by Currer, Ellis and  Acton Bell.

  • And it isgood to cheat the pair, and gibe, Letting the rank tongue blossom into speech. Setebos, Setebos, and Setebos! Thinketh, He dwelleth i'the cold o'the moon. Thinketh He made it, with the sun to match, But not the stars; the stars came otherwise.

    - Robert Browning
      Dramatis Personae,'Caliban upon Setebos', stanza1.

  • Oh wert thou in the cauld blast, On yonder lea, on yonder lea; My plaidie to the angryairt, I'd shelter thee, I'd shelter thee.

    - Robert Burns
      'Oh wert thou in the cauld blast', stanza1.

  • She had a mannish manner of mind and face, able to feel hot and think cold.

    - (Arthur) Joyce Lunel Cary
      Herself Surprised, ch.7.

  • A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.

    -T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
      'The  Journey of the Magi'.

  •   The only time it isn't good for you is when you write or when you fight.You have to do that cold.But it always helps my shooting. Modern life, too, is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief. 394

    - Ernest Millar Hemingway
      Of whisky. Letter to Ivan Kashkin,19  Aug.

  • Les livres sont des amis froids et s u" rs. Books are cold and certain friends.

    -Victor Marie Hugo
      Les Mise  rables, vol.1, bk.5, ch.3.

  • The cold reaches of the universe must not become the new area of an even colder war.

    -John F(itzgerald) Kennedy
      Address to the United Nations, 25 Sep.

  • I want to go south, where there is no autumn, where the cold doesn't crouch over one like a snow-leopard waiting to pounce. The heart of the North is dead, and the fingers of cold are corpse fingers.

    - D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
      Letter to  J Middleton Murry, 3 Oct.

  • Have you seen the bush by moonlight, from the train, go running by? Blackened log and stump and sapling, ghostly trees all dead and dry; Here a patch of glassy water; there a glimpse of mystic sky? Have you heard the still voice callingyet so warm, and yet so cold: 'I'm the Mother-Bush that bore you! Come to me when you are old'?

    - Henry Hertzberg Lawson
    'On the Night Train', collected in Colin Roderick (ed) Henry Lawson: Collected Verse (3 vols,1967^9).

  • The Spy who Came in from the Cold.

    -John pseudonym of  David John Moore Cornwell Le Carre 
       Title of novel.

  • It is a terrible thing, this kindness that human beings do not lose. Terrible because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have.

    - Ursula ne  e Kroeber Le Guin
      The Left Hand of Darkness, ch.13.

  • No worse than a bad cold.

    - Harpo originally Adolf Marx Marx
    His winning suggestion when a critic set up a competition for readers'reviews of the long-running play  Abie's Irish Rose by Anne Nichols.  Attributed.

  • When Paris sneezes, Europe catches cold.

    - Prince Clemens Lothar Wenzel Metternich
      Letter, 26  Jan.

  • Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king, Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing: Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!

    -Thomas Nashe
      Summer's Last Will and Testament,'Song'.

  • Hatjesich einWeib,das sichgutbekleidet wusste, erk a« ltet? Has a woman who knew she was well dressed ever caught a cold?

    - FriedrichWilhelm Nietzsche
      Die Go«  tzen-Da«  mmerung ( Twilight of the Idols),'Maxims and  Arrows', no.25 (translated by R  J Hollingdale).

  • I wanted to be black. I always wanted to be black† Being black iswarm and gay, being white is cold and sad.

    -Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams Rhys
      Voyage in the Dark, ch.1.

  • Coldcold as truth, cold as life. No, nothing can be as cold as life.

    -Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams Rhys
      Voyage in the Dark, ch.3.

  • There is no looking-glass here and I don't know what I am like now. I remember watching myself brush my hair and how my eyes looked back at me. The girl I saw was myself and yet not quite myself. Long ago when I was a child and very lonely I tried to kiss her. But the glass was between ushard, cold and misted over with my breath.Now they havetaken everything away.What am I doing in this place and who am I?

    -Jean pseudonym of  Ellen Gwendolen Rees Williams Rhys
      The consciousness of Antoinette Mason/Bertha Rochester at a point of intersection with the text of Jane Eyre. Wide Sargasso Sea, pt.3.

  • The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses grey, Seemed to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried byan orphan boy, The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry.

    - Sir Walter Scott
      The Lay of the Last Minstrel, introduction.

  • And said I that my limbs were old, And said I that my blood was cold, And that my kindly fire was fled, And my poor withered heart was dead, And that I might not sing of Love?

    - Sir Walter Scott
      The Lay of the Last Minstrel, canto1, stanza1.

  • Came through cold roads to as cold news.

    - Sir Walter Scott
      Journal,16 Jan, referring to the financial collapse of his publisher, Constable, which led directly to Scott's own bankruptcy.

  •   If you strike a child take care that you strike it in anger, evenattheriskof maiming itfor life. A blow incold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

    - George Bernard Shaw
      Man and Superman,'Maxims for Revolutionists: How to Beat Children'.

  •    He has out-soared the shadow of our night; Envyand calumnyand hate and pain, And that unrest which men miscall delight, Can touch him not and torture not again; From the contagion of the world's slow stain He is secure, and now can never mourn A heart grown cold, a head grown grey in vain.

    - Percy Bysshe Shelley
    Adonais, stanza 40.

  • Now the nimble fingers are no more nimble, And the silver thimble lies cold and tarnished black.

    - Sir (Francis) Osbert Sitwell
      'Mrs Mew'sWindowbox'.

  • It was an ideal day for footballtoo cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

    - Red Smith
      Reporting on a match between the Chicago Bears and the NewYork Giants.

  • Oh, no, no, no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.

    - Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
      NotWaving but Drowning,'NotWaving but Drowning'.

  • Shall I tell you the signs of a New Age coming? It is a sound of drubbing and sobbing Of people crying,We are old, we are old And the sun isgoing down and becoming cold.

    - Stevie (Florence Margaret) Smith
      NotWaving but Drowning,'The NewAge'.

  • She has made me in love with a cold climate, and frost and snow, with a northern moonlight.

    - Robert Southey
      On MaryWollstonecraft. Letter to his brotherThomas Southey, 28 Apr.

  • What worlds delight, or joy of living speech Can heart, so plunged in sea of sorrows deep, And heape'  d with so huge misfortunes, reach? The careful cold beginneth for to creep, And in my heart his iron arrow steep, Soon as I think upon my bitter bale.

    - Edmund Spenser
      The Faerie Queen, bk.1, canto 7, stanza 39.

  • And all that I could thinkof, in the darkness and the cold, Was just that I was leaving home and my folks were growing old.

    - Robert Louis Stevenson
      'Christmas at Sea', stanza11.

  •    I fear that I have not got much to sayabout Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.

    - Henry David Thoreau
      AYankee in Canada.

  • Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.

    - Horace, 4th Earl of Orford Walpole
      Letter to George Montague, 30 Jul. In The Correspondence of HoraceWalpole (Yale edition,1937^8).

  • See, the curse of children! In life they keep us frequently in tears, And in the cold grave leave us in pale fears.

    -John Webster
      TheWhite Devil, act1, sc.2.

  • Lifeless in appearance, sluggish dazed spring approaches They enter the new world naked, cold, uncertain of all save that they enter.

    -William Carlos Williams
      Spring and All,'Spring and All'.

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