Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Quotations about Weather

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. ~John Ruskin


A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. ~Carl Reiner


Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. ~Langston Hughes


Rainbows apologize for angry skies. ~Sylvia Voirol


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


To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring. ~George Santayana


Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella. ~Terri Guillemets


The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky. ~Muriel Spark, Territorial Rights, 1979


Weather forecast for tonight: dark. ~George Carlin


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


There is no season such delight can bring
As summer, autumn, winter and the spring.
~William Browne


I played as much golf as I could in North Dakota, but summer up there is pretty short. It usually falls on Tuesday. ~Mike Morley


Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain. ~Author Unknown


Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. ~Roger Miller


No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,
Watches beside me in this windy place.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay


Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may will call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones, and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains. ~Henry Ward Beecher


When snow falls, nature listens. ~Antoinette van Kleeff


Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger. ~Saint Basil


A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods. ~Rachel Carson


There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. ~Don Delillo


Tell me how many beads there are
In a silver chain
Of evening rain,
Unravelled from the tumbling main...
~Thomas Lovell Beddoes


The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. ~Mark Twain, attributed


There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind. ~Annie Dillard


For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. ~George Gissing, "Winter," The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, 1903


The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you'd just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with hot scones and jam and look out the streaked window with complacency. ~Susan Allen Toth, England For All Seasons


The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? ~J.B. Priestley


Snowflakes are kisses from heaven. ~Author Unknown


My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather. ~Terri Guillemets


Dear beautiful Spring weather, I miss you. Was it something I said? ~"Skipper" Kim Corbin


All was silent as before -
All silent save the dripping rain.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


Any proverbs about weather are doubly true during a storm. ~Terri Guillemets


It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain. ~Mark Twain


The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches. ~e.e. cummings


There's no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing. ~Alfred Wainwright


The sky was dark and gloomy, the air was damp and raw, the streets were wet and sloppy. The smoke hung sluggishly above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise, and the rain came slowly and doggedly down, as if it had not even the spirit to pour. ~Charles Dickens


What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance. ~Jane Austen


Under my head till morning; but the rain
Is full of ghosts tonight, that tap and sigh
Upon the glass and listen for reply....
~Edna St Vincent Millay


The wind shows us how close to the edge we are. ~Joan Didion


Spooky wild and gusty; swirling dervishes of rattling leaves race by, fleeing the windflung deadwood that cracks and thumps behind. ~Dave Beard


Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. ~Rabindranath Tagore


Where does the white go when the snow melts? ~Hugh Kieffer


A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together! ~Author Unknown


Snowmen fall from heaven... unassembled. ~Author Unknown


When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels. ~Author Unknown


I used to stare up at the sky trying to see where the snowflakes were born. I could do it for hours. Well, minutes. But it was always the waiting that was the most fun. ~Author unknown, from a package of Starbucks coffee, 2010


The substance of the winds is too thin for human eyes, their written language is too difficult for human minds, and their spoken language mostly too faint for the ears. ~John Muir


Through woods and mountain passes
The winds, like anthems, roll.
~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. ~Jonathan Swift


One can find so many pains when the rain is falling. ~John Steinbeck


Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book


It was an ideal spring day, a light blue sky, flecked with little fleecy white clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly, and yet there was an exhilarating nip in the air, which set an edge to a man's energy. ~Arthur Conan Doyle


The sun lay like a friendly arm across her shoulder. ~Margorie Kinnan Rawlings, South Moon Under


Bad weather always looks worse through a window. ~Author Unknown


Name the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com


There's one good thing about snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor's. ~Clyde Moore


The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky - seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness. ~Joseph Conrad


There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends. ~Arnot Sheppard


I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness. ~Adeline Knapp


New-England weather - it is a matter about which a great deal is said, but very little done. ~Charles Dudley Warner, 1884, commonly attributed to Mark Twain as "Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)

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