Quotes
Quotes about Rain
Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
The only real training for leadership is leadership.
Sunwands turn rain droplets into blackberry drupelets as enkindled okra seeds acknowledge heliocracy.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Liberty consists in wholesome restraint.
Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.
Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning.
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
English literature is a kind of training in social ethics. English trains you to handle a body of information in a way that is conducive to action.
Little do such men know the toil, the pains, the daily, nightly racking of the brains, to range the thoughts, the matter to digest, to cull fit phrases, and reject the rest.
How many time do I love, again? Tell me how many beads there are In a silver chain Of evening rain Unravelled from the trembling main And threading the eye of a yellow star:-- So many time do I love again.
If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.
You've got to love what's loveable and hate what's hateable. It takes brains to see the difference.
For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation -Rainer Maria Rilke.
Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.
Of all the worldly passions, lust is the most intense. All other worldly passions seem to follow in its train.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain. The superior man ... stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Like an army defeated The snow hath retreated, And now doth fare ill On the top of the bare hill; The Ploughboy is whooping--anon--anon! There's joy in the mountains: There's life in the fountains; Small clouds are sailing, Blue sky prevailing; The rain is over and gone.
(Macbeth:) How does your patient, doctor? (Doctor:) Not so sick, my lord, As she is troubled with thick-coming fancies That keep her from her rest. (Macbeth:) Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory of a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain, And with some sweet oblivious antidote Cleanse the stuffed bosom of the perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart? (Doctor:) Therein the patient Must minister to himself. (Macbeth:) Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it!
When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
Remembrance wakes with all her busy train, Swells at my breast, and turns the past to pain.
The more connections that can be made in the brain, the more integrated the experience is within memory.
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
