Winter is here along with chilly temps and falling snow. If you are looking for funny winter quotes you have come to the right place. There is something about winter that is so special. The crisp air, fresh snow, frosty trees, snowball fights and short days are very memorable. However, winter sometimes requires a sense of humor. These hilarious winter quotes are great for that moment when you need a laugh.
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Our Favorite Funny Winter Quotes
“The problem with winter sports is that – follow me closely here – they generally take place in winter.”
-Dave Barry
“The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it.”
― Richard Brautigan
“I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.”
– Will Rogers
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.”
– Anton Chekhov
“Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.”
– Deborah Kerr
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.”
– Anne Bradstreet
“Imagine if fire extinguishers were full of snow. Imagine the fun we could have.”
– Neil Hilborn
“You should see my corgis at sunset in the snow. It’s their finest hour. About five o’clock they glow like copper. Then they come in and lie in front of the fire like a string of sausages.”
– Tasha Tudor
“The world was furred with late spring snow. It was the soft, thick stuff that excites you unless you are driving or half dead, packing snow already falling in caterpillars off the greening branches.”
― Marian Engel.
“While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.”
– Tom Allen
“Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do – or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.”
– Stanley Crawford
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
– Charles Dickens
“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’
“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”
– Carl Reiner
“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 Heber.
“They watched the snow fall and fall and fall until they thought that they were the ones falling.”
― Ann Patchett.
“Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.”
– Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
“You are not a special snowflake.”
– Sophia Amoruso
“Calvin: Today for show and tell, I’ve brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson from how this utterly unique and exquisite crystal turns into an ordinary, boring molecule of water just like every other one when you bring it into the classroom. And now, while the analogy sinks in, I will be leaving you drips and going outside…”
– Bill Watterson
“They say that there can never be two snowflakes that are exactly alike, but has anyone checked lately?”
– Terry Pratchett
“Fine! You guys can all be beautiful snowflakes! I’m gonna go over here and be an awkward snowflake!”
― Robyn Schneider
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
– Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
“Snowflakes fascinate me… Millions of them falling gently to the ground… And they say that no two of them are alike! Each one completely different from all the others… The last of the rugged individualists!”
– Charles M. Schulz
“We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.”
– Lewis Black
“I was watching souls going down into the abyss as thick and fast as snowflakes falling in the winter mist.”
– Benedict Joseph Labre
“You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You’re the same decaying organic matter as everything else.”
– Chuck Palahniuk
I never eat November’s snowflakes, I always wait until December.” – Lucy
“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
– Markus Zusak
“The most delightful advantage of being bald—one can hear snowflakes.”
– R. G. Daniels
“The light made the snowballs look yellow. Or at least I hoped that was the cause.” — Gary D. Schmidt
“It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.” ― Dylan Thomas
“The smallest snowstorm on record took place an hour ago in my back yard. It was approximately two flakes. I waited for more to fall, but that was it.” ― Richard Brautigan
“Let the storm rage on. The cold never bothered me anyway.” – Elsa from Frozen
“The world was furred with late spring snow. It was the soft, thick stuff that excites you unless you are driving or half dead, packing snow already falling in caterpillars off the greening branches.” ― Marian Engel
“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
“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
“When snow falls, nature listens.” ― Antoinette Van Kleeff
“The snow fell as softly as a poet’s tears.” ― Kevin Ansbro
“The very fact of snow is such an amazement.” ― Roger Ebert
“We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.” ― Walter Scott
“I confess, I hope she does not hurry. It is good to be alone in the snow.” ― Pierce Brown
“Close your eyes. Hear the silent snow. Listen to your soul speak.” ― Adrienne Posey
“The first snow is like the first love.” — Lara Biyuts
“The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.” ― E.E. Cummings
“Advice is like the snow. The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.” ― Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“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
“I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas. It brings people together whilst time stands still.” ― Rachel Cohn
“A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky unbidden and seems like a thing of wonder.” ― Susan Orlean
“Snowfall rouses your inner child to dream and play once more.” ― Angie Weiland-Crosby
“Snow brings a special quality with it, the power to stop life as you know it dead in its tracks.” ― Nancy Hatch Woodward
“There’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on.” ― Carol Rifka Brunt
“The snow began to fall again, drifting against the windows, politely begging entrance and then falling with disappointment to the ground.” ― Jamie McGuire
If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Winter Letter Board Quotes, Snow Day Quotes, Short Snow Quotes, Snowflake Quotes, December Quotes, December Captions, Short December Quotes and Short Winter Quotes.
Funny Short Quotes About Winter
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus
“Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.”
– Alexandra Guarnaschelli
“You can’t get too much winter in the winter.”
– Robert Frost
“Sometimes I would like to be a child again, and other times a woman made of snow.”
– Deirdre Sullivan
“Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man’s ingratitude.”
– William Shakespeare
“I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.”
– T. S. Eliot
“There was a silver lining tucked into last weekend’s blizzard.”
– Liz Krieger
“Like my father, I am a snow person.” ― Charlie English
“There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.” – Bill Veeck
“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.” – Victor Hugo
“The very fact of snow is such an amazement.” – Roger Ebert
“This crisp winter air is full of it.” – John Burroughs
“Nothing burns like the cold.” – George R. R. Martin
“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.” – Patricia Briggs
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” – Hal Borland
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” – William Blake
“When snow falls, nature listens.” – Antoinette Van Kleeff
“There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.”
– Billy Connolly
“I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.”
– Bill Watterson
“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”
– Aristotle
“There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.”
– Bill Bowerman
“There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
– John Ruskin
“It’s the most wonderful time of the year …There’ll be parties for hosting, Marshmallows for toasting,
And caroling out in the snow.”
– Andy Williams, ‘It’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year’.
“It was the kind of snow that brought children running out their doors, made them turn their faces skyward, and spin in circles with their arms outstretched.”
– Eowyn Ivey
“Snow brings a special quality with it—the power to stop life as you know it dead in its tracks.”
– Nancy Hatch Woodward
“It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.”
– Dylan Thomas
“Snow is the truth only when it’s snowing.”
– Marty Rubin.
” I love you snow much girl. It was love at frost sight.”
“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
– Markus Zusak
“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
Funny Winter Sayings
“I can’t get out of bed on days when the temperature is less than my age.”
“Dear winter, stop being so romantic, I’m single here.”
“Winter is nature’s way of saying, ‘Up yours.’”
“If there are ice cream trucks in the summer then why aren’t there Starbucks trucks in the winter?”
“I think the perfect gift to give anyone in the winter is a heated toilet seat.”
“If you need me, I’ll be inside until April.”
“Every mile is two in winter.”
“Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants.”
“I’m staying in shape this winter by wearing enough layers to be constantly sweating.”
“Dear winter, I’m breaking up with you. I think it’s time I start seeing other seasons. Summer is hotter than you.”
“Apologizing in advance for the things I say this winter.”
“Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow…somewhere else!”
“Winter is like fall except you need five pairs of leggings instead of one.”
“When it snows you have two choices. Shovel or snow angels.”
And there you have it! Our list of the best quotes and winter sayings. We hope you found one that spoke to you.
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