Weather Quotes - Page 3

• Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.

  Kin Hubbard

  Funny, Change, Communication

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• The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Sports, Snow, Worry

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• The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.

  Meriwether Lewis

  Two, Foxes, Hunters

  Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Thomas Rees (2010). “Travels to the Source of the Missouri River: And Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean 1804, 1805, and 1806”, p.213, Cambridge University Press

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• What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

  Jane Austen

  Summer, Rainy Day, August

  "Jane Austen's correspondence and letters".

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• A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

  Joseph Addison

  Nature, Rain, Sunshine

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1796). “The Spectator”, p.311

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• A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weather, nobody seemed to do anything about it.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Funny, Science, Doe

  Editorial in Hartford Courant, August 27, 1897.

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• The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.

  C. S. Lewis

  Adversity, Years, Long

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• If you don't like the weather in New England now, just wait a few minutes.

  Mark Twain

  Waiting, England, Minutes

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• I think Baywatch is such a hit here because of the weather.

  Gena Lee Nolin

  Thinking, Baywatch

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• In London, the weather would affect me negatively. I react strongly to light. If it is cloudy and raining, there are clouds and rain in my soul.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Rain, Clouds, Light

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• Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

  Mark Twain

  Hands, Cold, Good Art

  Mark Twain (2014). “The American Claimant”, p.5, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The weather in England can really darken your spirits.

  Claire Forlani

  England, Spirit

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• We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Important, Tedious

  Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.439

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• I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather clerk's factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it...

  Mark Twain

  Country, Believe, Humor

  Mark Twain's "New England Weather" speech, www.pbs.org. 1876.

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• Wind does not need translation. It speaks the language of men, of animals and birds, of rocks and trees and earth and sky and water. It does not eat or sleep, or take shelter from the weather. It is the weather. And it lives.

  Jessica Day George

  Sleep, Men, Animal

  Jessica Day George (2011). “Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow”, p.223, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I was so cold I almost got married.

  Shelley Winters

  Married, Cold

  "Shelley Winters" by Veronica Horwell, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2006.

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• The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.

  Patrick Young

  Groundhog Day, Rainy Day, Lakes

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• All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Skins, Needs

  E. B. White (2014). “Writings from The New Yorker 1925-1976”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• On cable TV, they have a weather channel

  Dan Spencer

  Cities, Cable Tv, Tvs

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• Scarves, mittens, and hats are a great way to express your personality in the cold weather

  Brad Goreski

  Personality, Mittens, Scarves

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• Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year.

  Robert Breault

  Mother, Years, Names

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• My courage does not depend on the weather.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Doe, Depends

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2015). “Lean Forward into Your Life: Listen Hard, Live With Intention, and Play With Abandon”, p.114, Conari Press

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• Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

  Jean Paul

  Rain, Men, Literature

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• There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.

  Annie Dillard

  Spiritual, Clouds, Air

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• Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Art, Painting, Surface

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2476, Delphi Classics

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