weather

The golden rule of gardening is to pay attention to local conditions of weather and soil.

The fair-weather gardener, who will do nothing except when wind and weather and everything else are favourable, is never a master of his craft. Gardening, above all other crafts, is a matter of faith, grounded, however (if on nothing better), on his experience that somehow or other seasons go on in their right course, and bring their right results. No doubt bad seasons are a trial of his faith; it is grievous to lose the fruits of much labour by a frosty winter or a droughty summer, but, after all, frost and drought are necessities for which, in all his calculations, he must leave an ample margin; but even in the extreme cases, when the margin is past, the gardener's occupation is not gone.

Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

After three days men grow weary, of a wench , a guest, and weather rainy.

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.

Conversation may be compared to a lyre with seven chords--philosophy, art, poetry, love, scandal, and the weather.

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.

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

FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul.