Quotes about Weather

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“Change of weather is the discourse of fools.”
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“Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.”
MisattributedNot by Mark Twain. Earliest known source: Charles Dudley Warner (Hartford Courant, 1897). · evidenceWeather
“If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.”
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“A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.”
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“What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.”
VerifiedLetter (1796-09-18) [Letters of Jane Austen -- Brabourne Edition] · evidenceWeather
“Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium: It gets late out there early.”
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“One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.”
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“Don't knock th' weather. Nine-tenths o' th' people couldn' start a conversation if it didn' change once in a while.”
VerifiedAbe Martin's Primer : The Collected Writings of Abe Martin and his Brown County, Indiana, Neighbors (1914). · evidenceWeather
“A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunes.”
VerifiedNo. 162 (5 September 1711) · evidenceWeather
“"Heat, ma'am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones."”
VerifiedLady Holland's Memoir (1855) · evidenceWeather
“Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
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“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
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“Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else.”
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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.”
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“People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.”
Verified"Of the English climate" The Observer (London, 7 August 1966) · evidenceWeather