The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Life is one long struggle in the dark.

So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.

Such are the heights of wickedness to which men are driven by religion.

What is food to one man is bitter poison to others.

Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.

Victory puts us on a level with heaven.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers.

In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers.

From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.

The sum of all sums is eternity.

The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

And life is given to none freehold, but it is leasehold for all.

Constant dripping hollows out a stone.

Sweet it is, when on the high seas the winds are lashing the waters, to gaze from the land on another's struggles.

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

There can be no centre in infinity.

It is pleasant, when the sea runs high, to view from land the great distress of another.

What is food to one man may be fierce poison to others.

How is it that the sky feeds the stars?

Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

If you think it's going to rain, it will.

I grew up in this town, my poetry was born between the hill and the river, it took its voice from the rain, and like the timber, it steeped itself in the forests.

It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Only he shakes the heavens and from its treasures takes our the winds. He joins the waters and the clouds and produces the rain. He does all those things. Only he realizes miracles permanently.

Life is the fire that burns and the sun that gives light. Life is the wind and the rain and the thunder in the sky. Life is matter and is earth, what is and what is not, and what beyond is in Eternity.

The rain began again. It fell heavily, easily, with no meaning or intention but the fulfilment of its own nature, which was to fall and fall.

If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?

Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky.

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.

I don't know how you get dressed if you live in Wales, because it's pouring rain and then it's hot sunshine, and then it might hail. It's just so confusing.

People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.

I can see clearly now, the rain is gone. I can see all obstacles in my way.

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

It didn't rain today, so I didn't have to work. Why don't you have to sit around and wait until it rains?

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.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

Momo listened to everyone and everything - even to the rain and the wind and the pine trees - and all of them spoke to her after their own fashion.

I have never coasted down a hill of frozen rain.

It's hard when you see a scene where it's raining, and we have the rain machine, and you see it for 5 minutes, but that scene takes all day to shoot, and you do it with rain, and the dry off, and go back and do it again.

My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.