Mark Twain (1835–1910) is famous for having said, among other things, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” Trouble is, Twain didn’t actually say it; the witticism comes from his friend Charles Dudley Warner, with whom he wrote the novel The Gilded Age, but even then the wording is a touch different.

Twain’s famous quip “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco,” too, seems to have been a misquotation. Twain actually quoted another writer who, asked whether he had ever seen such a brutal winter as the icy, stormy one of 1878, replied, “Yes, last summer.” Twain quipped, “I judge he spent his summer in Paris.” The French capital is a notoriously chilly place, except when it’s not. It’s warmer than San Francisco in summer, though, and somehow Twain’s remark was stretched to cover the city in which he once lived and worked.

Mark Twain did have plenty to say about the weather, though. Here, to honor both the 100th anniversary of his death and the decidedly weird weather we’ve been having of late, is a selection of bon mots from his works.

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

If you don’t like the weather in New England, just wait a few minutes.