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Quotes about Rain


When things look dark, hold your head high so it can rain up your nose.

We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.

Peter de Vries

A raindrop, dripping from a cloud,

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

Michel De Montaigne

The way I see it, if you want rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Dolly Parton

A raindrop, dripping from a cloud,

The first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to the gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

Cato the Younger

You train people how to treat you by how you treat yourself.

Martin Rutte

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

George Eliot

Math anxiety: an intense lifelong fear of two trains approaching each other at speeds of 60 and 80 MPH.

Rick Bayan

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

Seneca

Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.

Ambrose Bierce

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Corrie Ten Boom, author and Holocaust survivor

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

John Vance Cheney

There is a foolish corner in the brain of the wisest man.

Aristotle

As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

Van Wyck Brooks

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

Nikola Tesla

Be master of your petty annoyances and conserve your energies for the big, worthwhile things. It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out - it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Robert Service

Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

Susan Ertz

The hypothalamus is one of the most important parts of the brain, involved in many kinds of motivation, among other functions. The hypothalamus controls the "Four F's": fighting, fleeing, feeding, and mating.

Heard in a neuropsychology classroom

Every dewdrop and raindrop had a whole heaven within it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?

Thomas J. Watson

To see a world in a grain of sand,

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Jules Renard

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Olive Schreiner

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