Quotes with umbrella

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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 Jerrold
  English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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• A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• All these years, they've been giving lip service to saying that we are a party that is inclusive instead of exclusive. We've said the Democratic Party has a great big umbrella, and everybody can be comfortable under that umbrella. If they didn't mean it, then it ought to be pulled apart.

  Bert Lance
  American businessman (1931 - 2013)
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• 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.

  James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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• The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine.

  Alfred E. Smith
  American politician (1873 - 1944)
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• When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet.

  Michael Isenberg
   
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• Who am I that I have to sing under an umbrella? These people are my fans, and if they can stand in the rain to hear me sing, I can stand in the rain.

  Bobby Darin
  American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• statesmanship
• democratic
• compromise
• everybody
• temporary
• expedient

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