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Letter "U" » umbrellas
«It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.»
«In this world it rains on the Just and the Unjust alike, but the Unjust have the Just's umbrellas»
«A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train»
«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»
Author: Douglas Jerrold
(Humorist, Journalist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
benevolent, duck, held, merciful, mistaken, rain, shower, showered, showering, umbrella, umbrellas
«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.»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Commitment,
Compromise,
Politics
| Keywords:
expedient, Expedients, party politics, roof, statesmanship, temporary expedient, umbrella, umbrellas, unwise
«Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye.»
«A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.»
Author: Robert Frost
| About:
Bankers and banks
| Keywords:
ask for, ask for it, bank, fair, fair weather, lend, umbrella, umbrellas, weather
«I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella.»
«All men are equal - that is to say, who possess umbrellas.»
«A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain»
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