The quote bank — Weather and Seasons

Our lives are effected from day to day by the weather. So why not have a quote bank about it? That way, you'll always have something to say when asked "How's the weather?"

WEATHER

Weather/Temperature

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather —John Ruskin

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. —Patrick Young

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while —Kin Hubbard

Weather is a great metaphor for life—sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella —Pepper Giardino

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. —George Carlin

If you don't like the weather, wait five minutes

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine —Anthony J. D'Angelo

All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism

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

If you saw a heat wave, would you wave back? —Steven Wright

When the weather is too hot they complain, too cold they complain, and when just right they're watching TV. —Mike Garofalo

Sunshine/Clear Skies

Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Grab your coat, and get your hat / Leave your worry on the doorstep / Just direct your feet / To the sunny side of the street —Dorothy Fields

Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather —Dale Evans Rogers

There is no season when such pleasant and sunny spots may be lighted on, and produce so pleasant an effect on the feelings as now... —Nathaniel Hawthorne

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade

My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather —Loire Hartwould

The sun lay like a friendly arm across her shoulder —Margorie Kinnan Rawlings

Cloudy/Rain/Storm

Anyone who says sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain

A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition —William Arthur Ward

Life is like a rainbow. You need both the sun and the rain to make its colors appear

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing a lullaby. —Langston Hughes

Rainbows apologize for angry skies —Sylvia Voirol

Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet —Roger Miller

A rainy day is a perfect time for a walk in the woods —Rachel Carson

The sun will come out—tomorrow —Annie

There is little chance that meteorologists can solve the mysteries of weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual attraction of rain and weekends —Arnot Sheppard

Snow

When snow falls, nature listens —Antoinette van Kleef

Where does the white go when the snow melts?

There's one good thing about the snow, it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor's —Clyde Moore

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery —Bill Watterson

Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough —Earl Wilson

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be unnecessary freezing of water —Carl Reiner

Snowmen fall from heaven unassembled

A snowflake is a winter's butterfly

Snowstorms are God's way of saying "You've been working too hard"

Wind

There is muscular energy in sunlight corresponding to the spiritual energy of wind —Annie Dillard

The really nice breezes blow through my body and into my soul —Astrid Alauda

The hushed winds wail with feeble moan —Joanna Baillie

The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell when it cometh, and whither it goeth —Bible

Where hast thou wandered, gentle gale, to find the perfumes thou dost bring? —William Cullen Bryant

As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene —Lord Byron

I hear the wind among the trees / Playing the celestial symphonies —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There's no need to fear the wind if your haystacks are tied down —Irish proverb

SEASONS

Spring

Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party!" —Robin Williams

It's spring fever....And when you've got it, you want—oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! —Mark Twain

I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden —Ruth Stout

Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day —W. Earl Hall

In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt —Margaret Atwood

Every year it seems to me I hear complaints about spring. It is either "late" or "unusually cold," "abnormally dry" or fantastically wet," for no one is ever willing to admit that there is no such thing as a normal spring. —Thalassa Crusso

Summer

In summer, the song sings itself —William Carlos Williams

A summer's sun is worth the having —French proverb

It's a beautiful day, don't let it get away —Bono

To see the summer sky is poetry —Emily Dickinson

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance —Bern Williams

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability —Sam Keen

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it —Russel Baker

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language. —Henry James

The summer night is like a perfection of thought —Wallace Stevens

Autumn

Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting and autumn a mosaic of them all —Stanley Horowitz

Autumn is second spring where ever leaf is a flower —Albert Camus

Autumn, the year's last, loveliest smile —William Cullen Bryant

Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees —Faith Baldwin

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree —Emily Bronte

Autumn is the hush before winter —French proverb

Everyone must take time to sit and watch the leaves turn —Elizabeth Lawrence

Winter

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer —Albert Camus

And finally Winter, with it's bitin', whinin' wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow —Roy Bean

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius —Pietro Aretino

Every mile is two in winter —George  Herbert

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood —Bill Watterson

Winter either bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail —proverb

The color of winter is in the imagination —Ward Elliot Hour

Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat

One kind word can warm three winter months —Japanese proverb

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