|
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
Massa's in de cold, cold ground.
(Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864), U.S. songwriter. "Massa's in de Cold Ground," Firth, Pond & Co. (1852).
Music composed by George Gershwin (1898-1937).)
More quotations from:
Stephen Collins Foster
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2
|
|
And the truth is cold, as a giant's knee
Will seem cold.
(John Ashbery (b. 1927), U.S. poet, critic. "A Last World.")
More quotations from:
John Ashbery
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
3
|
|
Our [British] summers are often, though beautiful for verdure, so cold, that they are rather cold winters.
(Horace Walpole (1717-1797), British author. Horace Walpole's Miscellany 1786-1795, p. 52, ed. Lars E. Troide, Yale University Press (1978).
Originally written in 1787.)
More quotations from:
Horace Walpole
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
4
|
|
Isn't it awful that cold feet make for a cold imagination and that a pair of woollen socks induce good thoughts!
(Franz Grillparzer (1791-1872), Austrian author. Notebooks and Diaries (1819).)
More quotations from:
Franz Grillparzer
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
5
|
|
Old, cold, withered, and of intolerable entrails.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Page, in The Merry Wives of Windsor, act 5, sc. 5, l. 153-4.
Page's description of Falstaff and his great belly.)
More quotations from:
William Shakespeare
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
6
|
|
A person can develop a cold.
(Frank Loesser (1910-1969), U.S. songwriter. "A Person Can Develop a Cough," Guys and Dolls, Frank Music Corp. (1950).
Music composed by Cy Coleman (b. 1929).)
More quotations from:
Frank Loesser
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
7
|
|
Not for no cold did freeze,
Nor any cloud beguile
Th'eternal flowering spring,
(Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), Italian poet. Aminta (l. 7-9). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)
More quotations from:
Torquato Tasso
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
8
|
|
Man dies of cold, not of darkness.
(Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936), Spanish philosophical writer. The Tragic Sense of Life, ch. 4 (1913).)
More quotations from:
Miguel de Unamuno
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9
|
|
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
(Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Irish philosopher, statesman. To His Constituents, "Translator's Preface," J.P. Brissot (1794).)
More quotations from:
Edmund Burke
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
10
|
|
Green Snake, when I hung you round my neck
and stroked your cold, pulsing throat
(Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-American poet. To the Snake (l. 1-2). . .
Poetry Anthology, The, 1912-1977. Daryl Hine and Joseph Parisi, eds. (1978) Houghton Mifflin Company.)
More quotations from:
Denise Levertov
|
|
|
|
Poets
