Rainy Day Quotes - Page 8

• English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.

  Maureen Johnson

  Rain, Stones, Slick

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• Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

  Thomas Fuller

  Weather, Fool, Discourse

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• For the first time in over a decade, your state government is doing what you do every day at home-spending what it takes in and saving for a rainy day.

  Tate Reeves

  Home, Government, Saving

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• Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

  Mark Twain

  Inspiration, Garden, Weather

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• Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Funny, Inspiring

  Khalil Gibran (2015). “A Tear And A Smile - Parables, Stories, and Poems of Khalil Gibran”, p.22, Editora Dracaena

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• Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing.

  J. Paul Getty

  Money, Business, Successful

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• There are two kinds of hope: the kind you couldn't do anything about and the kind you could. And even if the kind you could do something about wasn't what you'd originally wanted, it was still worth doing. A rainy day is better than no day. A small happiness can make a big sadness less sad.

  Rachel Simon

  Sadness, Two, Kind

  Rachel Simon (2011). “The Story of Beautiful Girl”, p.189, Hachette UK

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• There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.

  Galt Niederhoffer

  Summer, Depressing, Weather

  Galt Niederhoffer (2008). “The Romantics”, p.9, Macmillan

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• There was less than I’d expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept in the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled ‘DEAD SPIDERS.’ As if I hadn’t always known it was there. As if I wouldn’t want to look at dead spiders.

  Adam Rex

  Mom, Eggs, Panty Hose

  Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.8, A&C Black

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• So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past.

  Nicole Krauss

  Past, Rushing, Wandering Aimlessly

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.111, W. W. Norton & Company

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• He looked like the sort of person who would tell you that he did not have an umbrella to lend you when he actually had several and simply wanted to see you get soaked.

  Daniel Handler

  Umbrella, Wanted, Persons

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• Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

  Oscar Wilde

  Weather, Lasts, Conversation

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• Money is good for nothing unless you know the value of it by experience.

  P. T. Barnum

  Money, Wealth, Knows

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.53, Applewood Books

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• I might cry tomorrow, but I may be smiling the day after. That's enough. That's the way life is. If I don't lose hope - tomorrow will come. Tomorrow will come if we don't lose hope... I learned that from Nana. But rainy days still make my cheeks wet with tears, even now. It was pouring, on that rainy day.

  Ai Yazawa

  Tears, Pouring, May

  "Nana". Manga series by Ai Yazawa, July 2000 – June 2009.

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• Rain is also very difficult to film, particularly in Ireland because it's quite fine, so fine that the Irish don't even acknowledge that it exists.

  Alan Parker

  Rain, Film, Fine

  The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 7, 2000.

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• Nothing stays the same it all gets crushed. It all gets broken. It all passes with time. Only the moment you're in has any meaning." "There are things that stand the test of time, there are things that last. Like love." "Love theres nothing more fragile or ephereal. Love is like fire on a rainy day: you've got to spend all your time protecting it, feeding it, tending it because if you don't it goes out." "There are some loves that last." "No, what lasts is the pain that comes after love.

  Guillaume Musso

  Pain, Love Is, Like Love

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• Rainy day weddings create opportunities for really unique photos!

  Julie Roberts

  Unique, Opportunity, Rainy

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• I've always saved. I believe in keeping money back for a rainy day and living within my means. I don't buy expensive clothes; I have a 10-year-old car I'm hoping to replace when a big job comes in. I suppose when we do go on family holidays, I am quite happy to spend when we are there.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Jobs, Believe, Holiday

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• We call upon priesthood bearers to store sufficient so that you and your family can weather the vicissitudes of life. Please see to it that those entrusted to your watchcare receive these two pamphlets entitled All Is Safely Gathered In. Exhort them to prepare now for rainy days ahead.

  Keith B. McMullin

  Weather, Two, Stores

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• ...a rainy day ceases to have meaning for a person who has lived in the open under a monsoon cloud most of his life.

  Vikas Swarup

  Clouds, Monsoons, Persons

  Vikas Swarup (2005). “Q & A: A Novel”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• The 1927 Wimbledon finals were almost put off because of the rain, which threatened every moment.

  Helen Wills

  Rain, Finals, Wimbledon

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• You must learn to save first and spend afterwards.

  H. John Poole

  Firsts, Rainy

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• You never know: rain, sleet, hail, snow,
  See you gotta accept that's how things go.
  Prepare for the rainy day, or the sun's glow,
  But there's clouds movin' in and the clouds gonna blow.

  Q-Tip

  Rain, Rap, Blow

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• On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Doe, Lonesome

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• One of the better ways to simplify our lives is to follow the counsel we have so often received to live within our income, stay out of debt, and save for a rainy day. We should practice and increase our habits of thrift, industry, economy, and frugality. Members of a well-managed family do not pay interest; they earn it.

  L. Tom Perry

  Practice, Debt, Pay

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