Mark Twain Quotes
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
Twain, Mark. Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World. American Publishing Company, 1897.
Most scientists are of the opinion that although we cannot control the weather we can refrain from those activities that would induce more extreme climate changes. It is the extreme’s that cause the major problems. The other weather problems cause difficulties but they are manageable.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. He was lauded as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced," and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". His novels include The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and its sequel, the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), the latter often called "The Great American Novel".