Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Weather

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

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back?
Steven Wright (b.1955) American Comedian, Actor, Writer

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

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

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

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

If you don’t like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

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

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

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
Jean Paul (1763–1825) German Novelist, Humorist

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.
John Steinbeck (1902–68) American Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist

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 (1928–2021) English Journalist, Writer, Columnist

The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.
e. e. cummings (1894–1962) American Poet, Writer, Painter

Barometer: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having
Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, Journalist

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

The weather is here, wish you were beautiful.
Jimmy Buffett (b.1946) American Musician, Author

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian

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

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

Typhoons are a sort of violent whirlwinds. Before these whirlwinds come on… there appears a heavy cloud to the northeast which is very black near the horizon, but toward the upper part is a dull reddish color. The tempest came with great violence, but after a while, the winds ceased all at once and a calm succeeded. This lasted… an hour, more or less, then the gales were turned around, blowing with great fury from the southwest.
William Dampier (1652–1715) English Explorer, Adventurer

The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.
Joseph Wood Krutch (1893–1970) American Writer, Critic, Naturalist

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

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

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

May is a very early time in the year and the weather is usually bad. You cannot run a fast mile race if there is a strong wind, because it makes your running uneven.
Roger Bannister (1929–2018) British Athlete, Neurologist

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

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

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

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

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