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Day
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The Quote of the Day
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Sunshine is delicious, rain
is
refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing
as bad weather just different kinds of good weather.
-- John Ruskin
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For after all, the best thing one can do when it's
raining
is to let it rain.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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If you took away everything in the world that had
to be invented, there'd be nothing left except a lot of people getting
rained
on.
-- Tom Stoppard
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As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc.,
one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
-- Van Wyck Brooks
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A bad review is even less important than whether
it is raining in Patagonia.
-- Iris Murdoch
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| 6 |
I am an optimist, but I'm an optimist who carries
a raincoat.
-- Harold Wilson
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I think it rains
That tongues may loosen from the porch
Uncleave roof tops of the mouth, hang
heavy with knowledge.
-- Wole Soyinka
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| 8 |
I think God invented rain
to
give dead people something to complain about.
-- David Brenner
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| 9 |
He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the
good, and sendeth rain on the just and on
the unjust.
-- Bible
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| 10 |
A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine
morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a restless
night, and a rainy morning, would have proved
a coward.
-- Philip Dormer Chesterfield
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| 11 |
If the state of oratory that inundates our educational
institutions during the month of June could be transformed into rain
for
Southern California, we should all be happily awash or waterlogged.
-- Samuel Gould
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| 12 |
Millions long for immortality who do not know what
to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
-- Susan Ertz
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It will never rain
roses;
when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
-- George Eliot
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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
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| 15 |
Clouds that thunder do not always
rain.
-- Armenian Proverb
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| 16 |
Rain is grace;
rain
is
the sky condescending to the earth; without rain,
there would be no life.
-- John Updike
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| 17 |
There is little chance that meteorologists can solve
the mysteries if weather until they gain an understanding of the mutual
attraction of rain and weekends.
-- Arnot Sheppard
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Plan ahead. It wasn't raining
when Noah built the Ark.
-- Richard Cushing
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If you want the rainbow,
you've got to put up with a little rain.
-- Dolly Parton
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| 20 |
The drops of rain
make
a hole in the stone not by violence but by oft falling.
-- Lucretius
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| 21 |
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
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| 22 |
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
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| 23 |
Some people are making such thorough plans for rainy
days that they aren't enjoying today's sunshine.
-- William Feather
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| 24 |
Like a welcome summer rain,
humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
-- Langston Hughes
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| 25 |
The world goes up and the world goes down,
And the sunshine follows the rain;
And yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown
Can never come over again.
-- Charles Kingsley
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| 26 |
We live in a rainbow
of
chaos.
-- Paul Cezanne
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Truths are first clouds; then rain,
then harvest and food.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
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Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate
agitation are men who want rain
without thunder
and lightning.
-- Frederick Douglass
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| 29 |
Thy fate is the common fate of all;
Into each life some rain must
fall.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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| 30 |
Pay as little attention to discouragement as possible.
Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain
or
shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.
-- Maltbie D. Babcock
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Shining through tears, like April suns in showers,
That labour to o'ercome the cloud that loads 'em.
--Thomas Otway
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