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| I do pity unlearned people on a RAINy day. | Lucius C. Falkland | |
| You win some, you lose some, and some get RAINed out, but you gotta suit up for them all. | J. Askenberg | |
| The drops of RAIN make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. | Lucretius | c.95-55 BC, Roman poet and philosopher |
| We have not the reverent feeling for the RAINbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to RAIN. | Mark Twain | 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer |
| Military glory --the attractive RAINbow that rises in showers of blood. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it RAINs. | Alice Caldwell Rice | |
| Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine, jiggling your knees blankly in the RAIN, when it snows in your nose you catch cold in your bRAIN. | Allen Ginsberg | 1926-, American Poet |
| Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A RAINbow of colour strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm. | Anais Nin | 1914-1977, French-born American Novelist, Dancer |
| If I travelled to the end of the RAINbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end. | Bert Whitney | |
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| Living creatures are nourished by food, and food is nourished by RAIN; RAIN itself is the water of life, which comes from selfless worship and service. | Bhagavad Gita | c. BC 400-, Sanskrit Poem Incorporated Into the Mahabharata |
| Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as RAIN unto the sea. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Diplomats are useful only in fair weather. As soon as it RAINs, they drown in every drop. | Charles De Gaulle | 1890-1970, French President during World War II |
| The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the RAIN; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again. | Charles Kingsley | 1819-1875, British Author, Clergyman |
| The smallest effort is not lost. Each wavelet on the ocean tost aids in the ebb-tide or the flow; each RAIN-drop makes some floweret blow; each struggle lessens human woe. | Charles Mackay | 1814-1889, Scottish Poet, Song Writer |
| Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the RAIN of spring. | Chinese Proverb | Sayings of Chinese Origin |
| I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to RAIN, it will. | Clint Eastwood | 1930-, American Actor, Director, Politician, Composer, Musician, Producer |
| And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where RAIN never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time. | D. H. Lawrence | 1885-1930, British Author |
| Still falls the RAIN -- dark as the world of man, black as our loss -- blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. | Dame Edith Sitwell | 1887-1964, British Poet |
| If you pray for RAIN, don't be surprised if you're struck by lightning. | Damien Cannon | |
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| The way I see it, if you want the RAINbow, you gotta put up with the RAIN. | Dolly Parton | 1946-, American Musician, Country singer, Actress, Songwriter |
| There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the RAIN comes cracking down. | Don Delillo | 1926-, American Author |
| Why ask why? If it's RAINing it just is. | Doug Horton | |
| He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of RAIN. | Douglas William Jerrold | 1803-1857, British Humorist, Playwright |
| Any party which takes credit for the RAIN must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought. | Dwight Whitney Morrow | 1873-1931, American Lawyer, Banker, diplomat |
| A wind has blown the RAIN away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long. | E.E. | Edward. E.) Cummings (1894-1962, American Poet |
| Vexed sailors cursed the RAIN, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. | Edmund Waller | 1606-1687, British Poet |
| Walk on a RAINbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a RAINbow trail. | Edward A. Navajo | |
| Do not, on a RAINy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching. | Fran Lebowitz | 1951-, American Journalist |
| It will never RAIN roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
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| No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any cost. Some hope, some dream to cling to, Some RAINbow in the sky, Some melody to sing to, Some service that is high. | Harriet Du Autermont | |
| For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and RAINstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it. | Henry David Thoreau | 1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist |
| Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some RAIN must fall. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1819-1892, American Poet |
| Into each life some RAIN must fall, some days be dark and dreary. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1819-1892, American Poet |
| A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the RAIN. | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1819-1892, American Poet |
| Neither snow, nor RAIN, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. [The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service] | Herodotus | BC 484-425, Greek Historian |
| Tears of joy are like the summer RAIN drops pierced by sunbeams. | Hosea Ballou | 1771-1852, American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism'' |
| A bad review is even less important than whether it is RAINing in Patagonia. | Iris Murdoch | 1919-, British Novelist, Philosopher |
| The shortest period of time lies between the minute you put some money away for a RAINy day and the unexpected arrival of RAIN. | Jane Bryant Quinn | Business Author |
| Every man has a RAINy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him. | Jean Paul Richter | 1763-1825, German Novelist |
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| And when it RAINs on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the RAIN, there would be no RAINbow. | Jerry Chin | |
| Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a RAINbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white -- and we're all precious in God's sight. | Jesse Jackson | 1941-, American Clergyman, Civil Rights Leader |
| The task of an American writer is not to describe the misgivings of a woman taken in adultery as she looks out of a window at the RAIN but to describe four hundred people under the lights reaching for a foul ball. This is ceremony. | John Cheever | 1912-1982, American Author |
| Summer is delicious, RAIN is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| Sunshine is delicious, RAIN is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. | John Ruskin | 1819-1900, British Critic, Social Theorist |
| RAIN is grace; RAIN is the sky condescending to the earth; without RAIN, there would be no life. | John Updike | 1932-, American Novelist, Critic |
| The soul would have no RAINbow had the eyes no tears. | John Vance Cheney | |
| I love the RAIN. I want the feeling of it on my face. | Katherine Mansfield | 1888-1923, New Zealand-born British Author |
| You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow, it may RAIN. | Leo Durocher | 1905-1991, American Baseball Player/Manager |
| Raise a million filters and the RAIN will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region. | Leonard Cohen | 1934-, Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer |
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