
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
Variant: Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet!
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.”
Variant: Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet!
“What do you do when it rains?"
The captain answered frankly. "I get wet.”
Source: Catch-22
In the Garden
Song lyrics, No Guru (1986)
“Pray for wet Summers, Winters wanting Rain.”
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Georgicks
“If all those people are getting wet to welcome me, surely the least I can do is get wet too!”
Asking for the roof of his car to be put back despite the pouring rain, during his visit to Manchester (12 July 1961), as quoted in "Yuri Gagarin: Mankind's first giant leap" in The Economist (3 August 2011) http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2011/08/yuri-gagarin?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/bl/mankindsfirstgiantleap
“I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.”
“Some people get a feeling of power from being unpleasant.”
Source: Rite of Passage (1968), Chapter 9 (p. 126).