Behind Curtain Number One

Weather forecast for tonight: dark. - George Carlin

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

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

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

Inflation: everyone's illusion of wealth - Unknown

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

An end is in sight to the severe weather shortage. - Ian Macaskill

An iron curtain has descended across the continent. - Winston Churchill

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

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

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

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it. - Charles Dudley Warner

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

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

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

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

The curtain rises on a vast primitive wasteland, not unlike certain parts of New Jersey. - Woody Allen

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

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

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

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

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

Advice is like snow, the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

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

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

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