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Quotations about Bad Weather



“Bad weather always looks worse through a window,” my mother used to tell us... ~Marion Mill Preminger, All I Want Is Everything, 1957


After gazing blankly for a minute or two at the cheerless district through which lay the drovers' journey, he turned to me and said, "But, Ruskin, what is the use of painting such a very bad weather?" And I had no answer, except that, for Copley Fielding and for me, there was no such thing as bad weather, but only different kinds of pleasant weather — some indeed inferring the exercise of a little courage and patience; but all, in every hour of it, exactly what was fittest and best, whether for the hills, the cattle, the drovers — or my master and me. ~John Ruskin, "The Hill-Side," 1883


We often hear of bad weather, but in reality, no weather is bad. It is all delightful, though in different ways. Some weather may be bad for farmers or crops, but for man all kinds are good. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating. As Ruskin says, "There is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather." ~John Lubbock, "Recreation," The Use of Life, 1894


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, "Winter," The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft, 1903


To the mind responsive to nature, there is no such thing as bad weather. If children are taught to find joy in the rain and the snow, the wind and the hail, the clouds and the sunshine, the music of the wind and other outdoor voices, they will find joy in all weathers. ~Alice G. McCloskey, "Weather," 1911


      You look out and see no sunshine. Drizzling rain dampens everything. It's soggy underfoot. "Beastly weather," you mutter to yourself. "A bad day to-day," you persistently and pessimistically say to everyone you meet.
      You fool! There is no such thing as a bad day. Good days and bad days exist only in your own head. The weather has nothing to do with it. Each day is what you make it for yourself. Bad weather is only an unfortunate opinion. ~William Johnston, "Here's Hoping! To-Day," 1913


Some days are cold,
      Some days are hot;
Some days are wet,
      Some days are not.
Some springs are late,
      Some winters "bad";
They are all great—
      Rejoice, be glad!
~William Arthur Ward, "Rejoice!"


Some one has said there is no such thing as bad weather, there are only good clothes. ~Elisabeth Woodbridge, "In the Rain," 1911


No Weather is Bad
When you're Suitably Clad.
~Arthur Guiterman, "Of Apparel," A Poet's Proverbs, 1924


There's no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing. ~Alfred Wainwright (1907–1991)


Umbrellas that are up when Days are duller,
Instead of being Dark should glow with Color.
~Arthur Guiterman, "Of Cheeriness," A Poet's Proverbs, 1924


When storm sweeps across the land or when sudden cold grips with icy fingers, there is the temptation to say that nature is giving us a hard time of it. But the fact is that nature is neither vindictive nor benevolent. Man merely finds conditions to his liking or his distaste. The wind and weather are as unaware of man as they are of the hibernating woodchuck or the migrating bluebird. The only emotion involved is man's emotion. The big primal forces, of which wind and weather are prime examples, were doing pretty much these same things before man appeared; and if man should vanish as a species, they would go right on doing those things. ~Hal Borland


Fine weather is a prejudice of youth. For an old man, the weather can be neither fine nor bad; it is the very texture of the weather that seems priceless, whether brightened by shafts of sunlight or clouded with darkness. ~François Mauriac (1885–1970), "Man and Nature, and Art, and what it should be," Nouveaux Mémoires Intérieurs, 1965, translated from the French by Herma Briffault, The Inner Presence: Recollections of My Spiritual Life, 1968


Name the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com





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