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 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
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
Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
—George Carlin (1937–2008) American Stand-up Comedian
The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
—e. e. cummings (1894–1962) American Poet, Writer, Painter
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
I do think that, of all the silly, irritating tom foolishness by which we are plagued, this “weather-forecast” fraud is about the most aggravating. It “forecasts” precisely what happened yesterday or the day before, and precisely the opposite of what is going to happen today
—Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) English Humorous Writer, Novelist, Playwright
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
Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
—George Carlin (1937–2008) American Stand-up Comedian
All was silent as before –
All silent save the dripping rain.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic
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
States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.
—Niccolo Machiavelli (1469–1527) Florentine Political Philosopher
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
—Jane Austen (1775–1817) English Novelist
Barometer: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, Journalist
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
I’ve never been one to bet on the weather.
—J. Paul Getty (1892–1976) American Business Person, Art Collector, Philanthropist
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
WEATHER, The climate of an hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned. The setting up of official weather bureaus and their maintenance in mendacity prove that even governments are accessible to suasion by the rude forefathers of the jungle
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, Journalist
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish Poet, Playwright
If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?
—Steven Wright (b.1955) American Comedian, Actor, Writer
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
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
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
A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
—Rachel Carson (1907–64) American Naturalist, Science Writer
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
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
Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?
—Thomas Sowell (b.1930) American Conservative Economist, Political Commentator
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
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist