Quotes with weather-cock

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  • Pam Brown A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
    Pam Brown
    Australian poet (1948 - )
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  • Christina Rossetti 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 Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Marcel Proust A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Benjamin Franklin A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Publilius Syrus A cock has great influence on his own dunghill.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Beryl Bainbridge A man is two people, himself and his cock. A man always takes his friend to the party. Of the two, the friend is the nicer, being more able to show his feelings.
    Beryl Bainbridge
    English writer (1932 - 2010)
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  • E. B. White All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Washington Irving An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Ronald Dunn Atheism is easy in fair weather.
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  • Aeschylus Be bold and boast, just like the cock beside the hen.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Anna Jameson Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords - philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.
    Anna Jameson
    Anglo-Irish art historian (1794 - 1860)
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  • Charles de Gaulle Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Kin Hubbard 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
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Jean Paul Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Mark Twain Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Robert Gissing For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
    George Robert Gissing
    English writer (1857 - 1903)
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  • Arthur Hailey I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words.
    Arthur Hailey
    British-Canadian novelist (1920 - 2004)
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  • Bill Kurtis I've been producing documentaries on global warming for 20 years and have seen the early warnings of extreme weather events come true.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Mark Twain If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bernie Sanders In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assistance is critically important. In fact, it is a life and death issue.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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