Behind Curtain Number One

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. - George Carlin

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so. - Douglas Adams

You bring your own weather to the picnic. - Harlan Coben

Cursing the weather is never good farming. - English Proverb

Where does the white go when the snow melts? - Hugh Kieffer

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

There is no friend like a sister, in calm or stormy weather. - Christina Rossetti

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion. - Noam Chomsky

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

It is best to read the weather forecasts before we pray for rain. - Mark Twain

This is perfect weather for today's game. Not a breath of air. - Curt Gowdy

Jon Snow: I'm not afraid to die.
Mormont: Nor life, I hope. - George R.R. Martin

A man loses his illusions first, his teeth second, and his follies last. - Helen Rowland

Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine. - Anthony J. D'Angelo

News events are like Texas weather. If you don't like it, wait a minute. - Jessica Savitch

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer. - Dodie Smith

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. - Amelia Barr

Advice from your friends is like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad. - Unknown

Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow. - Jeff Valdez

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

I don't make plans, because life is short and unpredictable - much like the weather. - Al Roker

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. - Groucho Marx

Let's get an extended weather forecast from a jittery, inconsistent, reddish brown rodent. - Unknown

There's one good thing about snow: it makes your lawn look as nice as your neighbor's. - Clyde Moore

The Bermuda Triangle got tired of warm weather. It moved to Alaska. Now Santa Claus is missing. - Steven Wright

Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart. - Rainer M. Rilke

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Courage is not the towering oak that sees storms come and go; it is the fragile blossom that opens in the snow. - Alice M Swaim

They invented the three-day bank holiday weekend because you can't lump all the bad weather into just Saturday and Sunday. - Unknown

Life is no different than the weather. Not only is it unpredictable, but it shows us a new perspective of the world every day. - Suzy Kassem

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

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

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

Love easily confuses us because it is always in flux between illusion and substance, between memory and wish, between contentment and need. - Tom Robbins

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci

NBC News just called it "The Great Freeze" - coldest weather in years. Is our country still spending money on the global warming hoax? - Donald Trump