quotes on rain

And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous. ~Exodus 23:8



Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. ~Oscar Wilde



Habit is a cable; we weave a thread each day, and at last we cannot break it. ~Horace Mann



War. The dark time of valour, loss and hope where a man is controlled by his gun; where a gun is controlled by his hatred. Completely uncontrollable. ~Daniel Ha



If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it. ~Norman Thomas



The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart. ~Nikolai Lenin



Eat, drink and be scary. ~Author Unknown



"Heat, ma�am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones." ~Sydney Smith, Lady Holland�s Memoir (It's actually not about Arizona, but it fits!)



Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



Paradoxical as it sounds, many intellectuals prefer life in the mud to life in clear water. ~Martin H. Fischer



Las Vegas is Everyman's cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three words that a Roman emperor's orgy is now a democratic institution. "Topless Pizza Lunch." ~Alistair Cooke



If you've never met a student from the University of Chicago, I'll describe him to you. If you give him a glass of water, he says, "This is a glass of water. But is it a glass of water? And if it is a glass of water, why is it a glass of water?" And eventually he dies of thirst. ~Shelley Berman



I always give my grandkids a couple of quarters when they go home. It's a bargain. ~Gene Perret



Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. ~Anne Sexton



Some people say soccer's a matter of life or death, but it isn't. It's much more important than that. ~Variation of a famous saying Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well. ~Missy Dizick



It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. ~Voltaire, War



It always strikes me, and it is very peculiar, that when we see the image of indescribable and unutterable desolation - of loneliness, of poverty and misery, the end of all things, or their extreme - then rises in our mind the thought of God. ~Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo: An Autobiography of Vincent van Gogh, 1937



America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America. ~Jimmy Carter



Comedy has to be based on truth. You take the truth and you put a little curlicue at the end. ~Sid Caesar