It's always coldest before the warm. Spider Robinson
State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people'. Friedrich Nietzsche
Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises and oft it hits where hope is coldest and despair most sits. William Shakespeare
In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader. Edward Gibbon
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. Mark Twain
A fat woman warms even the coldest the night. Zambian Proverb