Rain

After three days men grow weary of a wench, a guest, and rainy weather.
- Benjamin Franklin, 1706 - 1790

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
- Frank A. Clark

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
- Jerry Chin

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803 - 1882

In winter, when the dismal rain
Comes down in slanting lines,
And Wind, that grand old harper, smote
His thunder-harp of pines.
- Alexander Smith, 1830 - 1867

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
- Howard Ruff