For twenty years he has held a season ticket on the line of least resistance and has gone wherever the train of events has carried him, lucidly justifying his position at whatever point he happened to find himself.

-Amery, Leo(pold) Charles Maurice Stennett
  Of Herbert  Asquith, in Quarterly Review,  Jul.

   My Love in her attire doth show her wit, It doth so well become her; For every season she hath dressings fit, For winter, spring, and summer. No beauty she doth miss When all her robes are on; But beauty's self she is When all her robes are gone.

-Anonymous
'Madrigal'. Collected in F Davison (ed) Poetical Rhapsody (1602).

Neil Kinnock has travelled the road to Damascus so often, I hear that he has decided to buy himself a season ticket.

-Ashdown, Baron
  At the Liberal Democratic Party conference, Sep.

Soisthisgreat and widesea, whereinarethings creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein. These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms104:25^7.

   The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms145:15^16.

A word spoken in due season, how good is it!

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs15:23.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Atimeto be born, and atimeto die; atimetoplant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; Atimetoweep, and atimeto laugh; atimetomourn, and a time to dance: A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes 3:1^8.

He was a burning and a shining light; and ye were willing for a season to rejoice in his light.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Of  John the Baptist. St  John 5:35.

Let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Galatians 6:9.

Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season.

-Bible (NewTestament)
  Timothy 4:2.

And helaid hold onthedragon, thatoldserpent, whichis the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years, And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 20:2^3.

Praise out of season, or tactlessly bestowed, can freeze the heart as much as blame.

-Buck, Pearl ne¤  e Sydenstricker
  To My Daughters, With Love,'First Meeting'.

But as in wailing there's nought availing, And Death unfailing will strike the blow, Then for that reason, and for a season, Let us be merry before we go.

-Curran,John Philpot
?1773  'Let Us Be Merry Before We Go'.

It was a nice sickly seasonjust at this time.In commercial phrase, coffins were looking up.

-Dickens, CharlesJohn Huffam
^9  Oliver Twist, ch.6.

Tenants of the house, Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  'Gerontion'.

Midwinter Spring is its own season Sempiternal though sodden towards sundown, Suspended in time, between pole and tropic.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  Four Quartets,'Little Gidding', pt.1.

   A little season of love and laughter, Of light and life, and pleasure and pain, And horror of outer darkness after, And dust returneth to dust again. Then the lesser life shall be as the greater, And the lover of life shall join the hater, And the one thing cometh sooner or later, And no one knoweth the loss or gain.

-Gordon, Adam Lindsay
'The Swimmer', stanza10, collected in Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes (1870).

What, then, was war? No mere discord of flags But an infection of the common sky That sagged ominously upon the earth Even when the season was the airiest May?

-Graves, Robert von Ranke
  'Recalling War'.

A man of your head and hair should owe more to that reverend ceremony, and not mountthemarriage bed like atown-bull, ora mountain-goat; but stay the dueseason and ascend it then with religion and fear.

-Jonson, Ben
^10  Epicoene, act 3, sc.5.

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run.

-Keats,John
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems,'To Autumn', stanza1.