
“Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.”
Kōnosuke Matsushita. Not for Bread Alone: A Business Ethos, a Management Ethic, 1984. p. 111
“Let a smile be your umbrella, and you'll end up with a face full of rain.”
“If you do not want it to rain, always carry an umbrella.”
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
According to R. Ken Rasmussen in The Quotable Mark Twain (1998), this is most probably not Twain's.
Misattributed
“If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain.”
Variant: The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!
“Who needs an umbrella in the rain?" she said, and stepped into the car.”
Source: Royal Blood
Source: Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work
“The gutters leaked like secrets, and the rain rained rain like rain…”
opening of side 2)
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)