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Quotes of the Day for 17 September 2004 - Weather

A brave subscriber in Florida, bracing for the fourth hurricane of the year, asked for quotes on weather. I can supply the quotes, I just hope the power is on so he can read them, and that nothing of value to him has blown away.

Weather, n. The climate of the hour. A permanent topic of conversation among persons whom it does not interest, but who have inherited the tendency to chatter about it from naked arboreal ancestors whom it keenly concerned.
     - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

They sicken of the calm who know the storm.
     - Dorothy Parker, 1893 - 1967

The weather-cock on the church spire, though made of iron, would soon be broken by the storm-wind if it ... did not understand the noble art of turning to every wind.
     - Heinrich Heine, 1797 - 1856

I have seen the sea when it is stormy and wild; when it is quiet and serene; when it is dark and moody. And in all its moods, I see myself.
     - Martin Buxbaum

The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.
     - Martin Luther, 1483 - 1546

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.
     - Willa Silbert Cather, 1873 - 1947

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