Behind Curtain Number One

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. - George Carlin

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. - Mae West

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

Despite the forecast, live like it's spring. - Lilly Pulitzer

Climate is what we expect. Weather is what we get. - Mark Twain

The New Year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. - George William Curtis

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings. - JRR Tolkien

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

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative. - Oscar Wilde

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion of consciousness. - Albert Einstein

She walked across the ballroom as if she were trudging through deep snow. - Noel Coward

Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly. - Morticia Addams

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

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

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

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

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin

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

It's not my fault I was dragged out of my house by a mob and forced to predict the weather. - Punxsutawney Phil

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

Just 'cause there's snow in the basement don't mean there ain't no fire in the roof! - Archie Bunker

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

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. - Robert Frost

The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. - Margaret Atwood

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

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