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


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


When I no longer thrill to the first snow of the season, I'll know I'm growing old.  ~Lady Bird Johnson


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


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


It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows, listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.  ~Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter XLII


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, The Pickwick Papers


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


What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why,
I have forgotten, and what arms have lain
Under my head till morning; but the rain
Is full of ghosts to-night, 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


The heavy rain beat down the tender branches of vine and jessamine, and trampled on them in its fury; and when the lightning gleamed, it showed the tearful leaves shivering and cowering together at the window, and tapping at it urgently, as if beseeching to be sheltered from the dismal night.  ~Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit, Chapter XLIII


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


I love snow, snow, and all the forms of radiant frost.  ~Percy Bysshe Shelley


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


Lo, sifted through the winds that blow,
Down comes the soft and silent snow,
White petals from the flowers that grow
In the cold atmosphere.
~George W. Bungay


Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem.  ~William Hamilton Gibson

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