„So when ebbing Nile hides himself in his great caverns and holds in his mouth the liquid nurture of an eastern winter, the valleys smoke forsaken by the flood and gaping Egypt awaits the sounds of her watery father, until at their prayers he grants sustenance to the Pharian fields and brings on a great harvest year.“

— Statius

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„But when he let loose that great voice from his chestand the words came piling on like a driving winter blizzard —then no man alive could rival Odysseus! Odysseus…we no longer gazed in wonder at his looks.“
— Homér
„Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter's evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.“
— Virginia Woolf
„Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.“
— Virginia Woolf
„If the campaign is in summer the general must show himself greedy for his share of the sun and the heat, and in winter for the cold and the frost, and in all labours for toil and fatigue. This will help to make him beloved of his followers.“
— Xenophon