stale quotes

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

-Willa Sibert Cather
  My  Antonia, bk.2, ch.7.

Stale is their gladness who were never sad.

- Charles Harpur
'Sonnet XIII', collected in C  W Salier (ed) Rosa: Love Sonnets to Mary Doyle (1949).

I keep no rank nor station. Cured, I am frizzled, stale and small.

- RobertTraill Spence,Jr Lowell
  'Home  After Three Months  Away'.