Generally, but perhaps mistakenly, attributed to Mark Twain, as reported in Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations (1989), which notes that the quote "has never been verified in his writings". Many quotation dictionaries credit Charles Dudley Warner, a friend of Twain's, with this remark. But what Warner actually wrote, in an editorial in the Hartford (Connecticut) Courant (August 27, 1897), p. 8, was: "A well known American writer said once that, while everybody talked about the weathehttps://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Weather