Quotations about rain:

The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune fitfully on the skylight and the shade of the fast-flying across my book passed with delicate change. — N. P. Willis

Prelusive drops, let all their moisture flow in large effusion o’re the freshened world. — William cullen Bryant

The rain comes when the wind calls. — Emerson

Last night, above the whistling wind,
I heard the welcome rain,
A fusillade upon the roof,
A tattoo on the pane:
The Keyhole piped; the chimney-top
A warlike trumpet blew. — Bret Harte

A little rain will fill the lily’s cup, which hardly moists the field. – Edwin Arnold

I Saw God Wash the World Last Night

I saw God wash the world last night
with His sweet showers on high,
and then, when morning came, I saw
Him hang it out to dry.

He washed each tiny blade of grass
and every trembling tree;
He flung His showers against the hill,
and swept the billowing sea.

The white rose is a cleaner white,
the red rose is more red,
since God washed every fragrant face
and put them all to bed.

There’s not a bird, there’s not a bee
that wings along the way
but is a cleaner bird and bee
than it was yesterday.

William L. Stidger   1885-1949

Quotes about rain

I think rain is as necessary to the mind as to vegetation.  My very thoughts become thirsty, and crave the moisture.    John Burroughs

Vexed sailors curse the rain for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. Waller

On this day:

1989: University of Chicago doctors implanted part of a woman’s liver in her 21-month-old daughter in the nation’s first living donor liver transplant.

1992: President-elect Clinton met for more than an hour with former President Reagan in Los Angeles.

1995: House Speaker Newt Gingrich ruled out a 1996 presidential run.

I will make rivers flow on barren heights,
and springs within the valleys.
I will turn the desert into pools of water,
and the parched ground into springs.
… so that people may see and know,
may consider and understand,
that the hand of the Lord has done this,
that the Holy One of Israel has created it.

Isaiah 41:18, 20 NIV

Our God has unlimited power. He can place streams of water in the desert. There is nothing that God cannot do. To trust in anything else is folly. God can do anything. God makes a promise and He delivers.

O majesty unspeakable and dread!
Wert Thou less mighty than Thou art,
Thou wert, O Lord, too great for our belief,
too little for our heart.

On this day:

• 1956: Bandleader Tommy Dorsey died on this day, at the age of 51. His records sold more than 110,000,000 copies.
  

• 1956: THE PRICE IS RIGHT game show debuted on NBC.

— Harriet Lerner, The Dance of Anger, 1985

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

— Samurai Maxim

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

— Plato

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

— Seneca

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.
— Paul Tillich

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

— Alan W. Watts

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

— H. G. Bohn

Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

– Mahatma Gandh

Tell my mother I died for my country . . . I thought I did for the best . . . Useless! Useless! ~ John Wilkes – Booth Assassin of Abraham Lincoln 1865

Thanks my child. Dear Lord, I believe. Help Thou my unbelief and receive me into Thy Heavenly Kingdom. ~ Prince Otto von Bismarck – To his daughter who was attending him. 1898

I am still alive. ~ Caligula – Emperor of Rome (41)

So this is death — well . . . ~ Thomas Carlyle – British Historian 1881

Man was made for joy and woe,
And when this we rightly know
Through the world we safely go. ~ William Blake, Poems from the Pickering Manuscript grace!

How good is man’s life, the mere living! how fit to employ All the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! ~ Robert Browning

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy. ~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet [1923]

The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne will.

Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison. — Socrates

Malice blunts the point of wit. — Douglas Jerrold

When malice is joined to envy, there is given forth poisonous and feculent matter, as ink from the

cuttle-fish. — Plutarch

Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector. — Thackeray

So clean house! Make a clean sweep of malice and pretense, envy and hurtful talk. — 1 Peter 2:1 (MSG)

Every delay that postpones our joy is long. — Ovid

Away with delay; the chance of great fortune is short-lived. — Silus Italicus

He that rises late must tread all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night. — Benjamin Franklin

Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends. — Shakespeare

Time drinketh up the essence of every great and noble action, which ought to be performed, and is delayed in the exicution. — Vishnu Sarma

Life is wasted on the living. — Anonymous

May you live every day of your life. — Jonathan Swift

Everything has been figured out, except how to live. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Life is a tragedy – Sir W. Raleigh

Life is but a walking shadow – Shakspeare

Life is but a day at most – Burns