I’ve never been one to bet on the weather.
—J. Paul Getty (1892–1976) American Business Person, Art Collector, Philanthropist
One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
—John Steinbeck (1902–68) American Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist
One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
—George Gissing (1857–1903) English Novelist
It’s nothing, returned Mrs Chick. “It’s merely change of weather. We must expect change.
—Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist
There will be a rain dance Friday night, weather permitting
—George Carlin (1937–2008) American Stand-up Comedian
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful.
—Jimmy Buffett (b.1946) American Musician, Author
If you don’t like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
During the next thirty years the pole-ward migration of populations continued. A few fortified cities defied the rising water-levels and the encroaching jungles, building elaborate sea-walls around their perimeters, but one by one these were breached. Only within the former Arctic and Antarctic Circles was life tolerable. The oblique incidence of the sun’s rays provided a shield against the more powerful radiation. Cities on higher ground in mountainous areas nearer the Equator had been abandoned, despite their cooler temperatures, because of the diminished atmospheric protection.
—J. G. Ballard (1930–2009) English Novelist, Short Story Writer
The weather and my mood have little connection. I have my foggy and my fine days within me; my prosperity or misfortune has little to do with the matter.
—Blaise Pascal (1623–62) French Mathematician, Physicist, Theologian
Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year
—Robert Brault
The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather
—Lionel Trilling (1905–75) American Literary Critic
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 (1892–1950) American Poet, Playwright, Feminist
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.
—Christina Rossetti (1830–94) English Poet, Hymn Writer
Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium: It gets late out there early.
—Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American Sportsperson
A cloudy day, or a little sunshine, have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunes.
—Joseph Addison (1672–1719) English Essayist, Poet, Playwright, Politician
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Poet
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.
—Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali Poet, Polymath
You have of late stood out against your brother, and he hath taken you newly into his grace; where it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself; it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
the spring, the summer,
The chilling autumn, angry winter, change
Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world
By their increase, now knows not which is which.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
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 (b.1936) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
I’m a big follower and reactor to weather.
—Jimmy Buffett (b.1946) American Musician, Author
No one but Night, with tears on her dark face,
Watches beside me in this windy place.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American Poet, Playwright, Feminist
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones and chisel to shapes of grandeur the very mountains.
—Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922) French Novelist
The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
—e. e. cummings (1894–1962) American Poet, Writer, Painter
Spring is the season of gaiety, and winter of terror; in spring the heart of tranquility dances to the melody of the groves, and the eye of benevolence sparkles at the sight of happiness and plenty: in winter, compassion melts at universal calamity, and the tear of softness starts at the wailing of hunger and the cries of the creation in distress
—Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.
—Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist
A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
—Carl Reiner (1922–2020) American Actor, Comedian, Film Director
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 (1894–1984) English Novelist, Playwright, Critic
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it’s pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.
—Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) American Children’s Novelist
To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middling zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
—George Santayana (1863–1952) Spanish-American Poet, Philosopher
Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
—George Carlin (1937–2008) American Stand-up Comedian
The only way I’d worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and not theirs.
—Tommy Lasorda (b.1927) American Baseball Player, Coach
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.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains they drown in every drop.
—Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) French General, Statesman
Heat, ma am! 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.
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English Clergyman, Essayist, Wit
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
—Rachel Carson (1907–64) American Naturalist, Science Writer
Rain is grace; rain is the sky condescending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.
—John Updike (1932–2009) American Novelist, Poet, Short-Story Writer
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 (1783–1859) American Essayist, Biographer, Historian
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 (1902–67) American Poet, Fiction Writer, Dramatist
Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Irish Satirist
I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate
—John Steinbeck (1902–68) American Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist
Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
—George Carlin (1937–2008) American Stand-up Comedian
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
—Annie Dillard (b.1945) Essayist, Novelist, Poet, Naturalist, Mystic