Umbrella Quotes - Page 2

• Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

  James Russell Lowell

  Compromise, Poor, Roof

  1884 'On Democracy', speech in Birmingham, 6 Oct.

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• All men are equal — all men, that is to say, who possess umbrellas.

  E. M. Forster

  Men, Equal, Howards End

  "Collected Works of E. M. Forster".

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• The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Rain, Mushrooms, Increase

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• I have forgotten my umbrella.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Forgotten, Aphorism

  Gary Shapiro, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1989). “Nietzschean narratives”, Indiana Univ Pr

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• It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Rain, Worry, Use

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• If you really want to feel the life, use not your umbrella! Touch the truth directly!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Life, Use, Want

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• 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

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

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• Good friends will share the umbrella. Best friends Will steal it and yell: RUN LOSER RUN!

  Unknown

  Running, Good Friend, One Line

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• Prayer is asking for rain. Faith is carrying an umbrella. Faith is the inner sense of knowing that with divine order working on your side, all things will come together for your good. Faith is knowing that there is a divine plan and purpose for everything in life

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Prayer, Rain, Divine Order

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jul 26, 2016

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• The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. - Rain

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Rain, Fall, Sea

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2005). “A Child's Garden of Verses (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.9, Sparklesoup LLC

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• I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.

  Dorothy Parker

  Superlatives

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• The umbrella that I live under is that you must be truthful with everyone except when to do so would injure them or others.

  Rob Lowe

  Truthful, Being Truthful

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• I get my by any means on, whenever there's a drought get your umbrellas out because that's when I brainstorm.

  Jay-Z

  Mean, Drought

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• The biggest challenge for everybody to realize out there is that we're in a very complicated business world and that were all under one umbrella and it's very challenging for everybody to figure out where the priorities lie and where the loyalties lie

  Scott Bakula

  Loyalty, Lying, Priorities

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• For the past 10 years, corporations have been trained that they should use all the different media... But the internet is becoming the umbrella.

  Larry Weber

  Past, Media, Years

  Larry Weber (2009). “Marketing to the Social Web: How Digital Customer Communities Build Your Business”, p.12, John Wiley & Sons

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• Heavenly Father is constantly raining blessings upon us, but it is our fear, doubt, and sin that, like an umbrella, block these blessings from reaching us.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Father, Block, Rain

  FaceBook post by Dieter F Uchtdorf from Sep 28, 2014

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• Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Book, Thinking, Clothes

  Phyllis McGinley (1965). “Sixpence in Her Shoe”

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• As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.

  Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

  Beauty, Beautiful, Encounters

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• But such a tiny and trivial thing as an umbrella can deprive you of the sight of such a stupendous fact as the sun.

  Meher Baba

  Sight, Perspective, Tiny

  Meher Baba (1977). “The Mastery of Consciousness: An Introduction and Guide to Practical Mysticism and Methods of Spiritual Development”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• I don't want an elderly gentleman from Vienna with an umbrella inflicting his dreams upon me.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Dream, Elderly, Personality

  "Sigmund Says: And Other Psychotherapists' Quotes" edited by Bernard Nisenholz, (p. 6), 2006.

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• Forward into the untrodden! Courage, old man, and hold on to your umbrella!

  Conrad Aiken

  Men, Old Man

  Conrad Aiken (2015). “The Collected Short Stories of Conrad Aiken”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Life, Rain, Passion

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• I believe you have my umbrella" he says, almost out of breath but wearing a grin that has too much wolf in it to be properly sheepish.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Believe, Too Much, Breaths

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.165, Random House

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• I can't even make up a rhyme about an umbrella, let alone death and life and eternal peace.

  Knut Hamsun

  Life And Death, Rhyme, Eternal

  Knut Hamsun (2011). “Mysteries”, p.35, Souvenir Press

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• 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

  Lying, Shadow, May

  Francis Quarles (1777). “Emblems”, p.87

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