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  1. eileen

    eileen Resident Taxonomist Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    "Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once."

    "I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous."

    "For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not new."

    "Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."

    "Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get." - Mark Twain

    "Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company." Mark Twain

    "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." Mark Twain

    Whether the weather be fine,
    Whether the weather be not,
    Whether the weather be cold,
    Whether the weather be hot,
    We'll weather the weather,
    Whatever the whether,
    Whether we like it or not

    "Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather." John Ruskin

    "If you don't like the weather, just wait a minute"

    "I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate." John Steinbeck

    "If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome". Josh Billings

    "Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined." Josh Billings

    "The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it." - Patrick Young

    "Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge." Lao Tzu

    "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." Niels Bohr

    "An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination. " After Andrew Lang

    "A good forecaster is not smarter than everyone else, he merely has his ignorance better organised." Anon

    "Forecasting is the art of saying what will happen, and then explaining why it didn't! " Anon
     
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  3. glendann

    glendann Official Garden Angel

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    I loved this one and the poem is just so true.

    Whether the weather be fine,
    Whether the weather be not,
    Whether the weather be cold,
    Whether the weather be hot,
    We'll weather the weather,
    Whatever the whether,
    Whether we like it or not
     

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