quotes on rain

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. ~Aldous Huxley



A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. ~Anatole France



One of irony's greatest accomplishments is that one cannot punish the wrongdoing of another without committing a wrongdoing himself. ~Anonymous



Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. ~Mark Twain



I think you enjoy the game more if you don't know the rules. Anyway you're on the same wavelength as the referees. ~Jonathan Davies, 1995



We are each of us born into the arms of mortality, the Lord recognizing our need to be held. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors, and I shall adopt new views so fast as they appear to be true views. ~Abraham Lincoln



Short A: Of course, that's what they're here for.



If gays are granted rights, next we'll have to give rights to prostitutes and to people who sleep with St. Bernards and to nailbiters. ~Anita Bryant



The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



To ride a horse is to ride the sky. ~Author Unknown



We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which. ~Algernon Charles Swinburne Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. ~John Dryden



Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. ~Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, 1951



Keep a thing seven years and it's bound to come in handy. ~Russian Proverb



I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war. ~Robert Mueller



The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. ~Seneca



It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt



Yes, I will try to be. Because I believe that not being is arrogant. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin