shower quotes

It's easier to get a photograph of the Pope in the shower than a picture of her.

-Anonymous
  On Hillary Rodham Clinton's low profile in the period between her husband's election and inauguration. In Newsweek, 25  Jan.

Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the north of England.

- Charlotte Bronte« 
  Shirley, ch.1.

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-William Randolph Hearst
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

In time the savage bull sustains the yoke; In time all haggard hawks will stoop to lure; In time small wedges cleave the hardest oak, In time the flint is pierced with softest shower, And she in time will fall from her disdain, And rue the sufferance of your friendly pain.

-Thomas Kyd
c.1589  The Spanish Tragedy, act 2, sc.1.

Ye valleys low where the mild whispers use, Of shades and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enameled eyes, That on the green turf such the honeyed showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.

-John Milton
  Lycidas, l.136^41.

A pard-like Spirit, beautiful and swift A love in desolation masked;a Power Girt round with weakness;it can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour; It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow;even whilst we speak Is it not broken? Shelley

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Adonais, stanza 32.

And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in the shower of all my days.

- Dylan Marlais Thomas
  'Poem in October'.

As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower.

- (Philip) Edward Thomas
  'Tall Nettles'.

Me morire   en Par|s con aguacero, un d|a del cual tengo ya el recuerdo. Me morire   en Par|sy no me corro tal vez un jueves, como es hoy, de oton‹  o. I will die in Paris with a sudden shower, a day I can already remember. I will die in Parisand I don't budge maybe aThursday, like today is, in autumn.

- Ce  sarAbraham Vallejo
  Poemas humanos,'Piedra negra sobre una piedra blanca' (translated as'Black Stone on aWhite Stone',1968).

Three years she grew in sun and shower, 924 The Nature said,'A lovelier flower On earth was never sown; This Child I to myself will take; She shall be mine, and I will make A Lady of my own.'

-William Wordsworth
  'ThreeYears she grew in sun and shower', stanza1 (published1800).