On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Carmela Valente wrote: > I thought the Twain quote about the weather went something like, "if you > don't like the weather in San Francisco, just wait a few minutes". Forgive > me, as I am about to get up and don't have time right now to look up the > exact quote. The recently published Yale Book of Quotations has the following: If you don't like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes. Attributed to Mark Twain in Bennett Cerf, _Try and Stop Me_ (1944). An earlier version, not attributed to any individual, appeared in the _Washington Post_, 4 Mar. 1934, and referred to Washington, D.C.: "Just wait five minutes for a change -- That's what the weather here will do." Note that when I say "Attributed to" I mean that I doubt that Mark Twain really said this. Fred Shapiro