What's the difference between weather and climate? You can't weather a tree but you can climate. Weather is a great metaphor for life - sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, and there's nothing much we can do about it but carry an umbrella or choose to dance in the rain. ~Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, Paul Clifford, 1830 rattling along the house-tops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness. It was a dark and stormy night, the rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets. I woke to trees iced in silver and an April sky, sunlight breaking through the clouds. It is rather like living in a vast cosmic mood-swing here. ~Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, 1898Ĭussing the weather is mighty poor farming. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. We'll weather the weather whatever the weather, Whether the weather be fine, or whether the weather be not, Whether the weather be cold, or whether the weather be hot Prochnow, Speaker's Handbook of Epigrams and Witticisms, 1955 S EE A LSO: BAD WEATHER, COLD WEATHER, HOT WEATHER, FORECASTING, RAIN, STORMS, THUNDERSTORMS, MONSOONS, SNOW, FIRST SNOW, WIND, OPEN WINDOWS, WEATHER & WINDOWS, SUN, RAINBOWS, SKY, CLOUDS, SEASONS, SPRING, SUMMER, AUTUMN, WINTER, FROZEN WORDS, NATURE, WATERĭon't knock the weather nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
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