Weather Quotes and Sayings
Weather Quotes and Sayings
The weather is a fact of life — it is the first thing we think of when making small talk, and it is one thing that all people will have to deal with regardless of their status.
The weather has long been a subject of delight for philosophers and artists.
Here’s a few of our favorite weather quotes and sayings.
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
Mark Twain
Concrete is, essentially, the color of bad weather.
William Hamilton
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords – philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
Anna Jameson
Day is like day as two beads in a rosary, unless changes of weather form the only variety.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
Charles de Gaulle
The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.
C. S. Lewis
The only way I’d worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.
Tommy Lasorda
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
Lionel Trilling
The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
Jerome K. Jerome
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
Marcel Proust
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
Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
Ilka Chase
An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
Washington Irving
Bad weather always looks worse through a window.
Tom Lehrer
By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer’s best of weather And autumn’s best of cheer.
Helen Hunt Jackson
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Thomas Fuller
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Jean Paul
For the man sound of 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
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
Christina Rossetti
I am a contradictory mess but I see it as my prerogative to change my mood like the weather.
Shirley Manson
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