Quotations about

Weather

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?

—Kelvin Throop III

You know how it feels right before a tornado hits? I mean when the sky’s still clear, but the wind’s starting to cool off and change direction. You know something’s coming, but you don’t always know what. That’s how things feel to me right now.

—P.C. Cast in Betrayed

There are only two seasons—winter and Baseball.

—Bill Veeck

Humans—despite their artistic pretensions, their sophistication, and their many accomplishments—owe their existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.

—Unknown

While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

—Tom Allen

People universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you are fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

—George Santayana

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

—Carl Reiner

Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic.

—Ambrose Bierce

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

—Mark Twain

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

—Alice Hoffman

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

—Ambrose Bierce

Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel.

—Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.

—George Carlin

No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.

—Michael Pritchard