When it rains…
Now that the rainy season has begun, here are proverbs about it that we can learn from:
Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.—German proverb
Work the fields on a fine day; study on a rainy day. —Japanese
Thatch your roof before the rainy season; dig your well before you become parched with thirst.—Chinese
When planning for a year, plant corn. When planning for a decade, plant trees. When planning for life, train and educate people.—Chinese
It’s good to watch the rain from a dry standpoint.—Dutch
A wise man carries his cloak in fair weather, and a fool wants his in rain.—Scottish
A learned man without work is a cloud without rain. —Arab
Fulfillment
A promise is a cloud; its fulfillment is the rain.—Arab
He fled from the rain and sat down under the waterspout.—Arab
Rain does not make friends with anybody—it falls on any person it meets outside. —Nigerian
No matter how powerful a man is, he cannot make the rain fall on his farm alone.—African
Where the rain falls, there’s no hunger.—African
The roof of the house fights the rain, but the person who lives in it ignores it.—African
The plant God favors will grow even without rain. —Danish
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