quotes about rainy days

To know when to go away and when to come closer is the key to any lasting relationship. ~Domenico Cieri Estrada



Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools. ~William Congreve



In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number. ~Steven Wright



You know how I feel about tacos. It's the only food shaped like a smile. A beef smile. ~Danielle Sanchez-Witzel and Michael Pennie, My Name is Earl, "South of the Border Part Uno/Dos," original airdate 7 December 2006, spoken by the character Earl Hickey



Baseball is an allegorical play about America, a poetic, complex, and subtle play of courage, fear, good luck, mistakes, patience about fate, and sober self-esteem. ~Saul Steinberg



As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. ~William Shakespeare



New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. ~Mark Twain



Medicines are not meat to live by. ~German Proverb



For those wounded by civilization, yoga is the most healing salve. ~Terri Guillemets



Those who sleep under a quilt, sleep under a blanket of love. ~Author Unknown



The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired, but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand with as much regularity as an accountant settles down each day to his figures. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration. ~Ernest Newman



Our government has become too responsive to trivial or ephemeral concerns, often at the expense of more important concerns or an erosion of our liberty, and it has made policy priorities more dependent on where TV journalists happen to point their cameras.... As a nation we have lost our sense of tragedy, a recognition that bad things happen to good people. A nation that expects the government to prevent churches from burning, to control the price of bread or gasoline, to secure every job, and to find some villain for every dramatic accident, risks an even larger loss of life and liberty. ~William A. Niskanen, "For a Less Responsive Government," Cato Policy Report, 1996



People tell me that the countryside must always be stupid and backward, and I get angry, as if it were said that only townspeople had immortal souls, and that it was only in the city that the flame of divinity breathed into the first men had an unobscured glow. ~George William Russell



The artist gazes upon a reality and creates his own impression. The viewer gazes upon the impression and creates his own reality. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. ~F. Scott Fitzgerald



I like making a piece of string into something I can wear. ~Author Unknown



Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. ~Robert Fulghum



We spend our days in deliberating, and we end them without coming to any resolve. ~L'Estrange



There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. ~Tennessee Williams (Thomas Lanier)



If the world was truly a rational place, men would ride sidesaddle. ~Rita Mae Brown