“ Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain. ”
- George Carlin- Copy
- 521
“ The tucked-up sempstress walks hasty strides, While streams run down her oil'd umbrella's sides. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
- 512
“ See, here's a shadow found; the human nature Is made th' umbrella to the Deity, To catch the sunbeams of thy just Creator; Beneath this covert thou may'st safely lie. ”
- Francis Quarles- Copy
- 3.9K
“ We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
- 3.2K
“ The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine. ”
- Alfred E. Smith- Copy
- 3.7K
“ A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
- 3.5K
“ A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 610
“ It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains. ”
- Alice Caldwell Rice- Copy
- 3.8K
“ He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain. ”
- Douglas William Jerrold- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. ”
- James Russell Lowell- Copy
- 2.2K
“ A large, clumsy umbrella is the best protection against the rain: there will be no rain as long as you're lugging it around. ”
- Peter Wastholm- Copy
- 3.2K
“ It is not for nothing, either, that the umbrella has become the very foremost badge of modern civilization — the Urim and Thummim of respectability.... So strongly do we feel on this point, indeed, that we are almost inclined to consider all who possess really well-conditioned umbrellas as worthy of the Franchise. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Umbrellas, like faces, acquire a certain sympathy with the individual who carries them. May it not be said of the bearers of these inappropriate umbrellas, that they go about the streets 'with a lie in their right hand?' Except in a very few cases of hypocrisy joined to a powerful intellect, men, not by nature, umbrellarians, have tried again and again to become so by art, and yet have failed, have expended their patrimony in the purchase of umbrella after umbrella, and yet have systematically lost them, and have finally, with contrite spirits and shrunken purses, given up their vain struggle, and relied on theft and borrowing for the remainder of their lives. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
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