Rainbows apologize for angry skies.—Sylvia Voirol

Sunshine is delicious， rain is refreshing， wind braces us up， snow is exhilarating[使人愉快的]; there is really no such thing as bad weather， only different kinds of good weather.

—John Ruskin

Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.

—Langston Hughes

To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

—George Santayana

Weather is a great metaphor[比喻] for life—sometimes it’s good， sometimes it’s bad， and there’s nothing much you can do about it but carry an umbrella.

—Terri Guillemets

Rain! whose soft architectural hands have power to cut stones， and chisel[砍鑿] to shapes of grandeur[偉大] the very mountains.

—Henry Ward Beecher

The best kind of rain， of course， is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval[中世紀(jì)的] poet makes me remember， the rain that falls on a day when you’d just as soon stay in bed a little longer， write letters or read a good book by the fire， take early tea with hot scones[烤餅] and jam and look out at the streaked[有條紋的] window with complacency[滿足].

—Susan Allen Toth， England For All Seasons

The sky was dark and gloomy， the air was damp and raw， the streets were wet and sloppy[潮濕的]. The smoke hung sluggishly[慢吞吞地] above the chimney-tops as if it lacked the courage to rise， and the rain came slowly and doggedly[頑強(qiáng)的] down， as if it had not even the spirit to pour.

—Charles Dickens

Clouds come floating into my life， no longer to carry rain or usher[引導(dǎo)] storm， but to add color to my sunset sky.

—Rabindranath Tagore

It was an ideal spring day， a light blue sky，

flecked[飾以斑點(diǎn)] with little fleecy[蓬松的] white

clouds drifting across from west to east. The sun was shining very brightly， and yet there was an exhilarating nip[寒冷] in the air， which set an edge to a man’s energy.

—Arthur Conan Doyle