The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic
The plant God favors will grow even without rain.
—African Proverb
It rains sorrow on him who is already wet.
—Spanish Proverb
All was silent as before –
All silent save the dripping rain.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic
May you always have work for your hands to do.
May your pockets hold always a coin or two.
May the sun shine bright on your windowpane.
May the rainbow be certain to follow each rain.
May the hand of a friend always be near you.
And may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you.
—Irish Blessing
A curious woman is capable of turning around the rainbow just to see what is on the other side.
—Chinese Proverb
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
—Langston Hughes (1902–67) American Poet, Fiction Writer, Dramatist
If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.
—William Lyon Phelps (1865–1943) American Literary Scholar, Academic
A banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair, and takes it away from you when it rains.
—Indian Proverb
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 (b.1936) American Novelist, Short Story Writer
If I peddle salt, it rains; if I peddle flour, the wind blows.
—Japanese Proverb
Sun is for cucumbers, rain for rice.
—Vietnamese Proverb
He fled from the rain and sat down under the waterspout.
—Arabic Proverb
An old friend met in a far country is like rain after drought.
—Chinese Proverb
It rained on the mountaintop, but it was the valley below that got flooded.
—African Proverb
How lovely is the sun after rain, and how lovely is laughter after sorrow.
—African Proverb
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
—Anatole France (1844–1924) French Novelist
Giving advice to the ignorant is like the rain falling on muddy ground.
—Persian Proverb
To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another. The gathering in of the clouds with the last rush and dying breath of the wind, and then the regular dripping of twigs and leaves the country over, the impression of inward comfort and Sociableness, the drenched stubble and trees that drop beads on you as you pass, their dim outline seen through the rain on all sides drooping in sympathy with yourself. These are my undisputed territory. This is Nature’s English comfort.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
The farmer hopes for rain, the walker hopes for sunshine, and the gods hesitate.
—Chinese Proverb
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 (1819–75) English Clergyman, Academic, Historian, Novelist
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
—Colin Wilson (b.1931) British Philosopher, Novelist
A learned man without work is a cloud without rain.
—Arabic Proverb
May you always have walls for the winds, a roof for the rain, tea beside the fire, laughter to cheer you, those you love near you and all your heart might desire.
—Irish Blessing
Rain, rain, go away, come again another day.
—Common Proverb
April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.
—T. S. Eliot (1888–1965) American-born British Poet, Dramatist, Literary Critic
If it rained macaroni, what a fine time for gluttons!
—Italian Proverb
It never rains on your neighbors without you getting your feet wet.
—Chinese Proverb
Women are like raindrops: some fall on palaces, others on rice fields.
—Vietnamese Proverb
After great droughts come great rains.
—Dutch Proverb
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