All was silent as before –
All silent save the dripping rain.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic
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
He who marries on a rainy day will be happy for the rest of his life.
—French Proverb
Rain before seven; clear before eleven.
—English Proverb
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.
—Frank A. Clark
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
Interest on debts grows without rain.
—Yiddish Proverb
A curious woman is capable of turning around the rainbow just to see what is on the other side.
—Chinese 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
Up the two terrace flights of steps the rain ran wildly, and beat at the great door, like a swift messenger rousing those within; …
—Charles Dickens (1812–70) English Novelist
Sun is for cucumbers, rain for rice.
—Vietnamese Proverb
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
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
If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
—Dolly Parton (b.1946) American Musician, Actress
It never rains on your neighbors without you getting your feet wet.
—Chinese Proverb
The heaviest rains fall on the house that leaks most.
—Japanese Proverb
A visit is like rainwater; you pray for it when it stays away and its a problem when it rains too much.
—Hebrew Proverb
Thunder is not yet rain.
—African 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
It takes both rain and sunshine to make a Rainbow.
—Indian Proverb
The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic
It rained on the mountaintop, but it was the valley below that got flooded.
—African Proverb
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 Author, Critic, Scholar
How lovely is the sun after rain, and how lovely is laughter after sorrow.
—African Proverb
How beautiful is the rain! After the dust and heat, in the broad and fiery street, and in the narrow lane; how beautiful is the rain!
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–82) American Poet, Educator, Academic
A learned man without work is a cloud without rain.
—Arabic Proverb
The making of an American begins at that point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.
—James Baldwin (1924–87) American Novelist, Social Critic
Giving advice to the ignorant is like the rain falling on muddy ground.
—Persian Proverb
He fled from the rain and sat down under the waterspout.
—Arabic 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
A little rain each day will fill the rivers to overflowing.
—African Proverb
The drowning man is not troubled by rain.
—Persian Proverb
If rain bothers you, you can always jump into the sea.
—Chinese Proverb
Save something for a rainy day.
—Common Proverb
It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring.
—Chinese Proverb
Trouble will rain on those who are already wet.
—Spanish Proverb
Whoever has only one garment does not wash it when it rains.
—African Proverb
It rains sorrow on him who is already wet.
—Spanish Proverb
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) British Poet, Literary Critic
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
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
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
—Hosea Ballou (1771–1852) American Theologian
Two lovers in the rain have no need of an umbrella.
—Japanese Proverb
The plant God favors will grow even without rain.
—African Proverb
A deaf man may not have heard the thunder but he surely will see the rain.
—African Proverb
There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.
—Casey Stengel (1890–1975) American Sportsperson
The rain follows after the forest.
—U.S. Proverb
If I peddle salt, it rains; if I peddle flour, the wind blows.
—Japanese Proverb
After great droughts come great rains.
—Dutch Proverb