Everyone Talks About The Weatherman

By Norm Dvoskin
Everyone talks about the weatherman, but no one does anything about him. No! That’s not right. It’s "Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it." This line, is usually attributed to Mark Twain....sometimes even to the late comedian-philosopher Will Rogers. Actually it was said originally by Charles Dudley Warner, Connecticut newspaperman, who was an associate of Mark Twain. Warner also said, "Politics make strange bedfellows." He seldom gets credit for that one either.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, lecturer and writer. Twain’s most noted novels are The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Great American Novel, and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. He is also known for his quotations. Many of which have been about the weather:

"Thunder is good, thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work."

"Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we’d all have frozen to death."

"Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get."

"If you don’t like the weather in New England just wait a few minutes."

I have a few of my own weather sayings that I’ll pass along to the readers of this blog:

The best place to stand in a hurricane is in a state that is not having one.

There’s no such thing as bad weather..just inappropriate clothing.

You know you’re not a kid any more when you’re obsessed by your thermostat.

Weather forecasts are seldom wrong.  It's the weather that's wrong. 

I know I’m no Mark Twain, but I’ll bet he couldn’t tell you the differences between sleet, freezing rain and hail.

Mark Twain 1835-1910