ICE

Related Subjects: Frost, Snow, Winter

1. In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice, by some whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice, to come in, as by chance.—BACON, Essays
   

2. Motionless torrents! silent cataracts!—COLERIDGE, Hymn Before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamouni
   

3. And ice, mast-high, came floating by
   As green as emerald.—COLERIDGE, The Ancient Mariner
   

4. In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.—EMERSON, Essays
   

5. Some say the world will end in fire,
   Some say in ice.
   From what I've tasted of desire,
   I hold with those who favor fire.
   But if it had to perish twice,
   I think I know enough of hate
   To say that for destruction ice
   Is also great
   And would suffice.—ROBERT FROST, Fire and Ice
   

6. Trust not one night's ice.—Proverb

7. What a sea of melting ice I walk on!—MASSINGER,
   Maid of Honour

8. When it cracks, it bears; when it bends, it breaks.—Proverb