Weather Quotes

[John] Dalton was a man of regular habits. For fifty-seven years he walked out of Manchester every day; he measured the rainfall, the temperature—a singularly monotonous enterprise in this climate. Of all that mass of data, nothing whatever came. But of the one searching, almost childlike question about the weights that enter the construction of these simple molecules—out of that came modern atomic theory. That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer

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

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

We have been exceedingly busy ever since you went away. In the first place we have had to rejoice two or three times everyday at your having such very delightful weather for the whole of your journey...

They have a great new device for TV weathermen. It's called a window.

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?

... 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.

Too often man handles life as he does the bad weather, He whiles away the time as he waits for it to stop

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

One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

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