The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked. Tristran could smell the distant winter on the air—a mixture of night-mist and crisp darkness and the tang of fallen leaves…. the crescent moon hung white in the sky and the stars burned in the darkness above them. – Neil Gaiman, Stardust

Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat. – Author Unknown

[W]inter tames man, woman and beast…. – William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew (Grumio)