Famous quotes containing the words gay, winter and/or games:
“One night betimes he went to rest, for he had caught a fever.
Says he, ‘I am a handsome man, but I’m a gay deceiver.’”
—George Colman (1762–1836)
“The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim. It is seemingly instantaneous at last.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“As long as lightly all their livelong sessions,
Like a yardful of schoolboys out at recess
Before their plays and games were organized,
They yelling mix tag, hide-and-seek, hopscotch,
And leapfrog in each other’s way all’s well.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)