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 best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic
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
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 (1985–99) American Essayist, Humorist
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
—Jane Austen (1775–1817) English 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
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
The closer the bird is to the surface of the water, the firmer and more inelastic is the uplift of the rising air. The bird appears to almost feel the surface with the tip of its weather wing
—Lawrence Hargrave (1850–1915) British-Australian Aeronautical Pioneer
I’ve never been one to bet on the weather.
—J. Paul Getty (1892–1976) American Business Person, Art Collector, Philanthropist
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
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 (1830–94) English Poet, Hymn Writer
Barometer: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, Journalist
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
The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) Polish-born British Novelist
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 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
If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.
—Frank Lane (1896–1981) American Sportsperson, Businessperson
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.
—John Ruskin (1819–1900) English Writer, Art Critic
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
Nature is so powerful, so strong. Capturing its essence is not easy—your work becomes a dance with light and the weather. It takes you to a place within yourself.
—Annie Leibovitz (b.1949) American Photographer
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
It’s nothing, returned Mrs Chick. “It’s merely change of weather. We must expect change.
—Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
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
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.
—Katharine Whitehorn (b.1928) English Journalist, Writer, Columnist
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
If you don’t like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
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
It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
What men call gallantry, and gods adultery, is much more common where the climate’s sultry.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
The weather is here, wish you were beautiful.
—Jimmy Buffett (b.1946) American Musician, Author
Certain accidents of the weather, for instance, were almost dreaded by me, because they woke the being I was always lulling, and stirred up a craving cry I could not satisfy.
—Charlotte Bronte (1816–1855) English Novelist, Poet
All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control. Describing John von Neumann’s aspiration for the application of computers sufficiently large to solve the problems of meteorology, despite the sensitivity of the weather to small perturbations
—Freeman Dyson (1923–2020) American Theoretical Physicist, Author
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
—Jean Paul (1763–1825) German Novelist, Humorist
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
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
The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
—e. e. cummings (1894–1962) American Poet, Writer, Painter
Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead
—Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922) French Novelist
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
We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
—Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues (1715–47) French Moralist, Essayist, Writer
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
—George Carlin (1937–2008) American Stand-up Comedian
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.
—David Hare (b.1947) English Dramatist, Director, Film-Maker
There is a muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind.
—Annie Dillard (b.1945) Essayist, Novelist, Poet, Naturalist, Mystic
Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year
—Robert Brault
Major Barkinson had a sure method of foretelling weather, or anything else for that matter. He would, for instance, select a certain patch of sky and then count slowly to three; if, during that time, no sea gull crossed the patch of sky, the thing he wanted would come true
—Gore Vidal (1925–48) American Novelist, Essayist, Journalist, Playwright
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