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.
—Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) English Poet, Critic
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
If I peddle salt, it rains; if I peddle flour, the wind blows.
—Japanese Proverb
After great droughts come great rains.
—Dutch Proverb
A rainy day is the perfect time for a walk in the woods.
—Rachel Carson (1907–64) American Naturalist, Science Writer
All was silent as before –
All silent save the dripping rain.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic
Sun is for cucumbers, rain for rice.
—Vietnamese Proverb
Big thunder, little rain.
—English Proverb
Sunshine without rain makes a desert.
—Arabic Proverb
Rain, rain, go away, come again another day.
—Common Proverb
It rained on the mountaintop, but it was the valley below that got flooded.
—African Proverb
The rain wets the leopard’s spots but does not wash them off.
—African Proverb
How lovely is the sun after rain, and how lovely is laughter after sorrow.
—African Proverb
The farmer hopes for rain, the walker hopes for sunshine, and the gods hesitate.
—Chinese Proverb
After the rain the grass will grow; after wine, conversation.
—Swedish Proverb
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 promise is a cloud; fulfillment is the rain.
—Arabic Proverb
I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.
—Pablo Neruda (1904–73) Chilean Poet, Diplomat, Political leader
A visit is like rainwater; you pray for it when it stays away and its a problem when it rains too much.
—Hebrew Proverb
It rains sorrow on him who is already wet.
—Spanish 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
Interest on debts grows without rain.
—Yiddish Proverb
The heaviest rains fall on the house that leaks most.
—Japanese 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
May the road rise up to meet you, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall softly on your fields. And until we meet again, May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
—Irish Blessing
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
—G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet
When the rain falls in the valley, the hill gets angry.
—African Proverb
A deaf man may not have heard the thunder but he surely will see the rain.
—African 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-British Poet, Dramatist, Literary Critic
The drowning man is not troubled by rain.
—Persian Proverb
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