Rainy Day famous quotes
03-31-2025
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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 -
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 -
Time is a resource that is non-renewable and non-transferable. You cannot store it, slow it up, hold it up, divide it up or give it up. You can’t hoard it up or save it for a rainy day—when it’s lost it is unrecoverable. When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as most people tend to observe a rainy day.
-- Alessandro Baricco -
Live within your means, never be in debt, and by husbanding your money you can always lay it out well. But when you get in debt you become a slave. Therefore I say to you never involve yourself in debt, and become no man's surety.
-- Andrew Jackson -
Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey
-- Andy Partridge -
My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.
-- Anne Lamott -
You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.
-- Bai Ling -
The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Who told you you're allowed to rain on my parade?
-- Bob Merrill -
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 -
A rainy day is like a lovely gift -- you can sleep late and not feel guilty.
-- Elizabeth Jane Howard -
Friends: not one. Just a few acquaintances who imagine they feel something for me and who might be sorry if a train ran over me and the funeral was on a rainy day.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.
-- Frank Lane -
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 -
We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.
-- George Washington Carver -
In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly.
-- Giulio Andreotti -
Rainy day people all know there's no sorrow they can't rise above.
-- Gordon Lightfoot -
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 -
You must learn to save first and spend afterwards.
-- H. John Poole -
There was nothing the matter with me that was not also the matter with everyone else. I was not as interesting as I thought I was. My major problem, inadequate or inappropriate love from my parents, was as common as dirt. And one rainy day, all the boring poignancy of these realizations detonated in me like an atom bomb, burning the dead shadow of each former torment or preoccupation onto solid rock. Those silhouettes, that record would remain: the museum where I used to be.
-- J. D. Daniels -
The worst thing is a rainy day with no laughs
-- Jameis Winston -
What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
-- Jane Austen -
Alice Malloy had dark, stringy hair, and even her husband, who loved her more than he knew, was sometimes reminded by her lean face of a tenement doorway on a rainy day, for her countenance was long, vacant, and weakly lighted, a passage for the gentle transports and miseries of the poor.
-- John Cheever -
We got trapped in the limo during a thunderstorm on our way to the reception. The bride wanted to wait for the storm to pass before they went in. It was actually an awesome chance for the couple to have some quiet time together after their ceremony.
-- Julie Roberts -
Rainy day weddings create opportunities for really unique photos!
-- Julie Roberts -
Rainy days and Mondays always get me down.
-- Karen Carpenter -
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 -
The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
-- Lucretius -
A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves.
-- Marcel Proust -
Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from beneath my feet. It chills my spirits like a rainy day, and all I can do is draw the curtains and cry into my pillow.
-- Margaret George -
My policies are based not on some economics theory, but on things I and millions like me were brought up with: an honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay; live within your means; put by a nest egg for a rainy day; pay your bills on time; support the police.
-- Margaret Thatcher -
The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood.
-- Mark Helprin -
Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.
-- Mark Twain -
Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we call life.
-- Mary Oliver -
I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage and tangled Christmas tree lights. I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'. I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.
-- Maya Angelou -
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 -
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
-- Oscar Wilde -
A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained.
-- P. T. Barnum -
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.
-- Patrick Young -
You are the sky. Everything else – it’s just the weather.
-- Pema Chodron -
Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket / Never let it fade away / Catch a falling star and put it in your pocket / Save it for a rainy day
-- Perry Como -
Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.
-- Rabindranath Tagore -
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 -
A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn't really small if it makes a lost hope less sad.
-- Rachel Simon -
I always feel sorry for people who think more about a rainy day ahead than sunshine today.
-- Rae Foley -
My favourite British spots are any of the beautiful parks, especially on a sunny day such as this, after a long stretch of cold, cloudy and rainy days.
-- Richard Schiff -
All of us are responsible to provide for ourselves and our families in both temporal and spiritual ways. To provide providently, we must practice the principles of provident living: joyfully living within our means, being content with what we have, avoiding excessive debt, and diligently saving and preparing for rainy-day emergencies. When we live providently, we can provide for ourselves and our families and also follow the Savior's example to serve and bless others.
-- Robert D. Hales -
People, who live below their means, save for a rainy day - the price is a cheap life. There are a lot of people who have a lot of money; but at the end of the process, they are still cheap; so they have made money their God.
-- Robert Kiyosaki -
But I marry myself. I take my fate as within.
-- Sena Jeter Naslund -
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 -
Bad weather always looks worse through a window.
-- Tom Lehrer -
I didn't invent the rainy day, man. I just own the best umbrella. That’s one of my favorite lines of all time. It’s from a movie called Almost Famous. I think what it means is that life is going to throw all kinds of stuff at you, good and bad. But all you can do is get out there and try to stay dry.
-- Valerie Thomas -
As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
-- Van Wyck Brooks -
I hope I have found myself, my work, my happiness - under the light of the western skies.
-- Zane Grey -
I'm a crybaby, which means I barricade myself in my house and scream for awhile, and when it subsides enough that I can leave, I go for a run. Tears make great fuel. Night runs, or rainy days, are best for this as you don't get as many questioning looks.
-- Allison McAtee -
I'm pretty conservative when it comes to money. My parents were very working class and constantly working. There was always a very strong work ethic and that's put a more conservative, "save for a rainy day" mentality into me.
-- Lemar -
Knowledge is awareness, and to it are many paths, not all of them paved with logic. But sometimes one is guided through the maze by intuition. One is led by something felt on the wind, something seen in the stars, something that calls from the wasteland to the spirit.
-- Louis L'Amour -
I do pity unlearned gentlemen on a rainy day.
-- Lucius Cary, 2nd Viscount Falkland -
For me, there's nothing better than curling up in my favorite blanket on a cloudy or rainy day and just knit. Especially in front of the fireplace.
-- Magdalena Neuner -
I love playing rock music, man. You give me a guitar in my hands, and I go out there, and, for me, it's like...you know, some dudes like hunting, fishing, going out and playing ball in the backyard with their buddies on a rainy day. I like being out with my buddies playing rock guitar. That's what I love to do.
-- Robby Takac -
What would it be like if you lived each day, each breath, as a work of art in progress? Imagine that you are a masterpiece unfolding each second of every day, a work of art taking form with every breath.
-- Thomas Crum -
You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.
-- Charles Williams -
Savings is an important tool because it can help the poor deal with the ups and downs of irregular earnings, and help them build reserves for a rainy day.
-- Sylvia Mathews Burwell -
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
