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  • It was no summer progress. A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just, the worst time of the year, to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in. The ways deep, the weather sharp, the days short, the sun farthest off in solstitio brumali, the very dead of winter. See Eliot 306:73.

    - Lancelot Andrewes
      Of the Nativity, sermon15.

  • The climate of Manitoba consists of seven months of Arctic weather and five months of cold weather.

    -Anonymous
      Settler's Guide to the North-West, issued by the Northern Pacific Railway Company, NewYork.

  • He answered and said unto them,When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring.O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

    -Bible (NewTestament)
    St Matthew16:2^3.

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

    - Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
      The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled  The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

  • Now westlin winds, and slaught'rin guns Bring Autumn's pleasant weather.

    - Robert Burns
      'Song, composed in  August', stanza1.

  • Buddy, it's fruitcake weather!

    -Truman Capote
      Of December in  Alabama.  A Christmas Memory.

  •    Hope ushers in a Revolutionas earthquakes are preceded by bright weather. 192

    -Thomas Carlyle
      History of the French Revolution, vol.1, bk.2, ch.1.

  • Jolly boating weather And a hay-harvest breeze, Blade on the feather, Shade off the trees; Swing, swing together, With your body between your knees.

    -William originally  WilliamJohnson Cory
      'Eton Boat Song'.

  • Ill is the weather that bringeth no gain.

    -Thomas Dekker
      The Shoemaker's Holiday,'The First Three-men's Song'.

  • The earth was made for Dombeyand Son to trade in, and thesunandmoonweremadetogivethemlight.Riversand seas were formed to float their ships; rainbowsgave them promise of fair weather; winds blew fororagainst their enterprises; stars and planets circled intheir orbits, to preserve inviolate a system of whichthey were the centre.

    - CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
    ^8  Dombey and Son, ch.1.

  • A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.

    -T(homas) S(tearns) Eliot
      'The  Journey of the Magi'.

  • This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly: And the little brown nightingale bills his best, And they sit outside at 'TheTravellers' Rest', And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest, And citizens dream of the south and west, And so do I.

    -Thomas Hardy
      Late Lyrics and Earlier,'Weathers'.

  • When two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather.

    - Samuel known as Dr Johnson Johnson
      In The Idler, no.11, 24  Jun.

  • Heavenly weather. If life was always like that.Cricket weather. Sit around under sunshades.Over after over. Out. They can't play it here. Still,Captain Buller broke a window in Kildare Street Club with a slog to square leg.

    -James Augustine Aloysius Joyce
      Ulysses. Legend has it that W G Grace performed the feat of breaking the Kildare Street Club window while playing at the distant College Park in the1870s.

  • Give me books, fruit, frenchwineand fine weatherand a little music out of doors, played by somebody I do not know.

    -John Keats
      Letter to Fanny Keats, 29  Aug.

  • They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods.

    - (Joseph) Rudyard Kipling
      Rewards and Fairies,'TheWay Through the Woods'.

  • The British, he thought, must be gluttons for satire: even the weather forecast seemed to be some kind of spoof, predicting every possible combination of weather for the next twenty-four hours without actually committing itself to anything specific.

    - David John Lodge
      Changing Places, ch.2.

  • There are people around here who think Hillary Clinton is responsible for the weather.

    - Michael D McCurry
      In the NewYork Times,7  Jan. New revelations about the First Lady's role in Whitewater land sales and the firing of the presidential travel office had coincided with a heavy Washington snowfall.

  •    It's no go my honey love, it's no go my poppet; Work your hands from day to day, the winds will blow the profit. The glassisfalling hourby hour, theglass will fall forever, But if you break the bloody glass, you won't hold up the weather.

    - (Frederick) Louis MacNeice
      'Bagpipe Music', stanza10.

  •    Your anger was a climate I inhabited like a desert in a dry frigid weather of high thin air and ivory sun, sand dunes the wind lifted into stinging clouds that blinded and choked me where the only ice was in the blood.

    - Marge Piercy
      Stone, Paper, Knife,'TheWeight'.

  • If only I could get down to Sidcup! I've been waiting for the weather to break. He's got my papers, this man I left them with, it's got it all down there, I could prove everything.

    - Harold Pinter
      The Caretaker, act1.

  • Weather abroad And weather in the heart alike come on Regardless of prediction.

    - Adrienne Cecile Rich
    A Change ofWorld,'StormWarnings'.

  • For there is no friend like a sister In calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, To fetch one if one goes astray, To lift one if one totters down, To strengthen whilst one stands.

    - Christina Georgina Rossetti
     Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Goblin Market'.

  • We welcome all enquiries about the UK climateafter all, we have more weather available in this country than anywhere else.

    - Sir Sydney Samuelson
      Check Book. with Musset and Chopin, and later  with prominent politicians.

  • Then strip lads, and to it, though sharp be the weather, And if, by mischance, you should happen to fall, There are worse things in life than a tumble on the heather And life is itself a game of football.

    - Sir Walter Scott
      On a matchbetween the Scottish teams Ettrick andSelkirk, published in the EdinburghJournal.

  • Only, here and there, an old sailor, Drunk and asleep in his boots, Catches tigers In red weather.

    -Wallace Stevens
      Harmonium,'Disillusionment ofTen O'Clock'.

  • Out upon it! I have loved Three whole days together; And am like to love three more, If it prove fair weather.

    - SirJohn Suckling
      'Out Upon It!'

  • Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green, Or where his beams may not dissolve the ice, In temperate heat, where he is felt and seen, With proud people, in presence sad and wise; Set me in base, or yet in high degree, In the long night, or in the shortest day, In clear weather, or where mists thickest be, In lusty youth, or when my hairs be grey† Yours will I be, and with that only thought Comfort myself when that my hap is nought.

    - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
    'Set me whereas the sun doth parch the green'.

  • If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather, Blown fields or flowered closes, Green pleasure or grey grief.

    - Algernon Charles Swinburne
      Poems and Ballads,'A Match'.

  • All in the blue unclouded weather Thick-jewelled shone the saddle leather, The helmet and the helmet-feather Burned like one burning flame together, As he rode down to Camelot.

    -Tennyson
      Poems,'The Lady of Shalott' (revised1842), pt.3, l.91^5.

  • The poet†may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.

    - Calvin Marshall Trillin
      The Liberal Imagination.

  •    It was inevitable that as soon as we had enjoyed a few days of reasonable summer weather, the country would suffer an acute water shortage. It can rain for100 days, but if the sun shines on the101st there will be hosepipe restrictions on the102nd.

    - Auberon Alexander Waugh
      Way of theWorld:The ForgottenYears:1995^6.

  • Our noisy years seem moments in the being Of the eternal silence: truths that wake, To perish never: Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavour, Nor man nor boy, Nor all that is at enmity with joy, Can utterlyabolish or destroy! Hence in a season of calm weather, Though inland far we be, Our souls have sight of that immortal sea Which brought us hither, Can in a moment travel thither, And see the children sport upon the shore, And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.

    -William Wordsworth
    c.1802^1803  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood', stanza 9 (published1807).

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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