Top 100 Ice Quotes Perfect For Wintery Captions

Ice is the solid-state of water that has been frozen.

Ice is recognized as a mineral since it is a crystalline solid that is naturally occurring. The presence of impurities like bubbles of air or soil makes ice appear transparent or opaque blue-white color.

Ice has been used for food preservation and cooling for centuries now. It was harvested in various forms and then transitioned to mechanical production. The first case of ice cargo in the United States was sent in 1799 from New York City to Charleston, South Carolina. By the mid-1900s, ice harvesting became a booming business.

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Ice Quotes

Here are some of the best ice quotes and sayings.

1. "A book must be an ice axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul."

― Franz Kafka.

2. "You must have your heart on fire and your brain on ice."

― Vladimir Lenin.

3. "We are ignorant of the Beyond because this ignorance is the condition of our own life. Just as ice cannot know fire except by melting and vanishing."

― Jules Renard.

4. "Some say the world will end in fire, some say in ice."

― Robert Frost.

5. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."

― Albert Schweitzer.

6. "Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost."

― A.S. Byatt.

7. "Thou art all ice. Thy kindness freezes."  

― William Shakespeare.

8. "We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter."    

― Bat Masterson.

9. "They say blood is thicker than water, but I say ice, can be more solid than blood, when times get cold."

― Anthony Liccione.

10. "The thinner the ice, the more anxious everyone is to see whether it will bear."

― Josh Billings.

11. "Ice and iron cannot be welded."  

― Robert Louis Stevenson.

12. "Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny."

― William Shakespeare.

13. "Ice has a social life. Its changeability shapes the culture, language and stories of those who live near it."

― Robert Macfarlane.

14. "He who cannot put his thoughts on ice should not enter into the heat of dispute."

― Friedrich Nietzsche.

15. "Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice."

― Dejan Stojanovic.

16. "Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness."

― Werner Herzog.

17. "A sea setting us upon the ice has brought us close to danger."

― Henry Hudson.

18. "Ice contains no future, just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct."

― Haruki Murakami.

19. "Without the ice, the earth will fall."

― Emma Thompson.

20. "Faith is only as valid as its object. You could have tremendous faith in very thin ice and drown. You could have very little faith in very thick ice and be perfectly secure."

― Stuart Briscoe.

Winter Quotes

Winter ice quotes that will help you chill down!

21. "In the cold dark days of the winter, dream about the flowers to get warmed up!"

― Mehmet Murat ildan.

22. "That's what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again."

― Ali Smith.

23. "Winter is not a season, it's an occupation."

― Sinclair Lewis.

24. "The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter."

― Benjamin Alire Sáenz.

25. "Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night."

― Virginia Woolf.

26. "It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it."

― John Burroughs.

27. "Winter is a season of recovery and preparation."

― Paul Theroux.

28. "Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour."

― John Boswell.

29. "Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is time for home."

― Edith Sitwell.

30. "What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."

― John Steinbeck.

31. "How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!"

― Thomas Wentworth Higginson.

32. "I pray this winter be gentle and kind - a season of rest from the wheel of the mind."

― John Geddes.

33. "Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius."

― Pietro Aretino.

34. "Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless."

― Terri Guillemets.

35. "Winter forms our character and brings out our best."

― Tom Allen.

Snow Quotes

Best snow quotes to bring out the essence of winter.

36. "A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship."

― Markus Zuzak.

37. "There's just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on."

― Carol Rifka Brunt.

38. "Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality."

― Andy Goldsworthy.

39. "In the darkness and the snow, the street is empty and it is just the night, the ice and me."

― Miriam Joy.

40. "A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder."

― Susan Orlean.

41. "We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt."

― Walter Scott.

42. "I grew up thinking of snow as a luxury you visit."

― John Landis.

43. "One of the very best reasons for having children is to be reminded of the incomparable joys of a snow day."

― Susan Orlean.

44. "The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient."

― Joseph Wood Krutch.

45. "Snow makes cities innocent again, reveals the frailty of the human gesture against the void."

― Glen Duncan.

46. "The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence."

― Dean Koontz.

47. "Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity."

― Novala Takemoto.

48. "Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood."

― Andy Goldsworthy.

49. "Waking up to a blanket of snow is like a morning lullaby, a soft dreamlike state that is almost magical."

― Nancy Hatch Woodward.

Snowflake Quotes

Snowflakes are like winter's miracle on ice! Quotes about them are breathtaking.

50. "Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together."

― Vesta M. Kelly.

51. "Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand."

― Henry David Thoreau.

52. "Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake."

― Sara Raasch.

53. "Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem."

― William Hamilton Gibson.

54. "I wish I could press snowflakes in a book like flowers."

― James Schuyler.

55. "Love is a snowflake for no two are ever the same."

― Kamand Koujouri.

56. "The wonder of a single snowflake outweighs the wisdom of a million meteorologists."

― Francis Bacon.

57. "Every avalanche begins with the movement of a single snowflake, and my hope is to move a snowflake."

― Thomas Frey.

58. "The snowflake never needs to feel responsible for the avalanche."

― Jon Ronson.

59. "Every snowflake is unique, yet they are each perfect."

― Donald L. Hicks.

Cold As Ice Quotes

Colder than ice quotes and talking about the human psyche.

60. "If people could see into my heart, I should almost feel ashamed - all there is cold, cold as ice."

― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

61. "If you allow coldness to engulf you before winter, season is helpless to help you."

― Munia Khan.

62. "He was not a man of icy nature, but he loved to gather icicles about him."

― Hall Caine.

63. "Sometimes it is easier to feel the veins wilted and empty than to sense the coldness of blood in fear."

― Munia Khan.

64. "Religion is like an ice-cold whiskey on a hot day."

― Ernest Hemingway.

65. "Your numbness is something perhaps you cannot help. It is what the world has done to you. But your coldness. That is what you do to the world."

― Lorrie Moore.

66. "There is much coldness among men because we do not dare to be as cordial as we really are."

― Albert Schweitzer.

67. "The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age."

― Francois de La Rochefoucauld.

68. "You're going to catch a cold, from the ice inside your soul."

― Christina Perri.

69. "Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole."

― Vicki Baum.

70. "Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not, and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad."

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Frost Quotes

Frost quotes and ice quotes to melt and warm you up just like the sun melts the snow during winter.

71. "December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory."

― John Geddes.

72. "Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry."

― Vera Nazarian.

73. "Ice burns, and it is hard to the warm-skinned to distinguish one sensation, fire, from the other, frost."

― A. S. Byatt.

74. "Cold indeed, and labor lost: Then farewell heat, and welcome frost!"

― William Shakespeare.

75. "The frost which kills the harvest of a year saves the harvest of a century, by destroying the weevil or the locust."    

― Ralph Waldo Emerson.

76. "But frost, like the crystallized dreams of autumn, began to coat the clearing with its sugar glaze."

― Victoria Steele Logue.

77. "The frost makes a flower, the dew makes a star."  

― Sylvia Plath.

Walking On Thin Ice Quotes

Some of the best walking and standing on ice quotes for you!

78. "When you're on the ice, you have very little time, you see very little, and everything happens really quick."

― Steve Yzerman.

79. "In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed."

― Ralph Waldo Emerson.

80. "It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water."

― Franklin P. Jones.

81. "Thin ice isn't a problem for the sea; it's a problem for the blind idiot who steps out on it."

― Jennifer Giesbrecht.

82. "If I'm walking on thin ice, I might as well dance my way across."

― Mercedes Lackey.

Figure Skating

Here is a list of the best quotes about figure skating, which is performed on ice.

83. "I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively."

― Patrick Chan.

84. "I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice."

— Debi Thomas.

85. "I love skating and sparkling and flying around the ice, and people clap for you."

― Johnny Weir.

86. "And the fact that I liked to show off and be the center of attention really lends itself to figure skating very well."

― Scott Hamilton.

87. "A figure skater is not just a figure skater who does great jumps. He is an artist on ice."  

― Alexei Yagudin.

88. "There's something about putting on a pair of skates, and getting out there and moving like nobody else can."

― Randy Gardner.

89. "Figure skating is theatrical. It's artistic. It's elegant. It's extremely athletic. And there's a very specific audience for that."  

― Johnny Weir.

Ice Skating Quotes

Ice skating will leave you chasing ice! Quotes about ice skating that you will absolutely love.

90. "If you are a complete perfectionist, then the truth is that this ice skating business will drive you a little crazy!"  

― Dorothy Hamill.

91. "Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life."

― Letitia Elizabeth Landon.

92. "Skating is one of those sports you, unfortunately, see people get stuck in."

― Ashley Wagner.

93. "A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself."  

― George Bernard Shaw.

94. "I'm an ice skater. I'm all about the glitter."

― Johnny Weir.

Funny Ice Quotes

Cool as ice quotes that will tickle your funny bones.

95. "Canadian winters are long. Life is hard and so is ice."

― Douglas Coupland.

96. "There's nothing pretty about ice. Ice grows nothing. But we've got this in our minds that we've got to make everything cold."    

― Don Young.

97. "A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water."

― Carl Reiner.

98. "The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass."

― Martin Mull.

99. "The Eskimos live among ice all their lives but have no single word for ice."

― Ashley Montagu.

100. "I recently took up ice sculpting. Last night I made an ice cube. This morning I made 12, I was prolific."

― Mitch Hedberg.

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