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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Weather

A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
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.
Change of weather is the discourse of fools.
Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.
Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
I love the rain. I want the feeling of it on my face.
If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.
It was so cold I almost got married.
One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible.
People get a bad impression of it by continually trying to treat it as if it was a bank clerk, who ought to be on time on Tuesday next, instead of philosophically seeing it as a painter, who may do anything so long as you don't try to predict what.
Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else.
Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium: It gets late out there early.
Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.

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