Can Spring Be Far Behind

"O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"
- Percy Bysshe Shelley

 “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
- Albert Camus

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
- Anne Bradstreet

“There are two ways of spreading light; to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”
- Edith Wharton 

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only."
- Charles Dickens

"Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly:"
- Shakespeare from As You Like It

"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."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

"There are only two seasons -- Winter and Baseball."
- Bill Veeck

"Oh, I love the night life
I got to boogie on the disco 'round, oh yeah"

Alicia Bridges -- I Love the Nightlife