Mark Twain Quotes about Rain

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A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.

A banker is somebody who lends you an umbrella & takes it away as soon as it starts raining.

Rain, Bankers, Investing

The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.

Mark Twain

Rain, Fall, Unjust

Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.221, Univ of California Press

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

Mark Twain

Rain, Weather, Religion

Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.513, Courier Corporation

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

Mark Twain

Hurt, Rain, Food

Mark Twain (1976). “Mark Twain's Notebooks & Journals, Volume I: (1855-1873)”, p.189, Univ of California Press

But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon "made ground"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others.

Mark Twain

Rain, New Orleans, People

Mark Twain (2015). “Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.205, 谷月社