Pride feels no frost. [ Proverb ]
The frost hurts not weeds. [ Proverb ]
Frost and fraud have foul ends. [ Proverb ]
No frost can freeze Providence. [ Proverb ]
What God will no frost can kill. [ Proverb ]
A lazy frost, a numbness of the mind. [ Dryden ]
Neither heat, nor frost, nor thunder
Shall wholly do away, I ween,
The marks of that which once hath been. [ Coleridge ]
On a lone winter evening, when the frost
Has wrought a silence. [ Keats ]
Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field. [ William Shakespeare ]
A February face,
So full of frost, of storm, and cloudiness! [ William Shakespeare ]
Ye living flowers, that skirt the eternal frost! [ Coleridge ]
Great deeds immortal are - they cannot die,
Unscathed by envious blight or withering frost,
They live, and bud, and bloom; and men partake
Still of their freshness, and are strong thereby. [ Aytoun ]
The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The frost performs its secret ministry unhelped by any wind. [ Coleridge ]
But, oh! fell Death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early. [ Burns ]
He that would have a bad morning may walk out in a fog after a frost. [ Proverb ]
He that is surprised with the first frost feels it all the winter after. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
The windflower and the violet, they perished long ago.
And the brier-rose and the orchis died amid the summer glow;
But on the hills the golden-rod, and the aster in the wood,
And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.
Till fell the frost from the clear cold heaven, as falls the plague on men.
And the brightness of their smile was gone, from upland glade and glen. [ Bryant ]
Behold the groves that shine with silver frost, their beauty withered, and their verdure lost! [ Pope ]
Whether zeal or moderation be the point we aim at, let us keep fire out of the one and frost out of the other. [ Addison ]
Read, read, sirrah, and refine your appetite; learn to live upon instruction; frost your mind and mortify your flesh. [ Congreve ]
The wretch that would wish the poetry of life and feeling to be extinct, let him forever dwell in flame, in frost, in ever-during night. [ Dante ]
The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth. [ Balzac ]
Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught. [ J. Petit-Senn ]
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive nature away from the heart of man. [ Theodore Parker ]
The gods and their tranquil abodes appear, which no winds disturb, nor clouds bedew with showers, nor does the white snow, hardened by frost, annoy them; the heaven, always pure, is without clouds, and smiles with pleasant light diffused. [ Lucretius ]
Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humblest to the dust, but also thou exaltest to the clouds. Thou shakest us with ague, but also thou steadiest like frost. Thou sickenest the heart, but also thou healest its infirmities. [ De Quincey ]