“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!
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Dolly Parton36
American singer-songwriter and actress 1946Related quotes
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A popular internet misattribution.[citation needed] A number of variants of the "rain on your parade" theme appear, with different sources
Misattributed
“When it rains, you put up an umbrella. That is the secret of success in business and management.”
Matsushita Konosuke (1894–1989) Japanese businessman
Kōnosuke Matsushita. Not for Bread Alone: A Business Ethos, a Management Ethic, 1984. p. 111
Edie Sedgwick (1943–1971) Socialite, actress, model
Edie : Girl On Fire (2006)
“It never rains when you want it to
You humble me, Lord”
Norah Jones (1979) American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
"Humble Me", Feels Like Home (2004)
Song lyrics
“These people picked you up and played with you and then left you lying in the rain”
Janet Fitch (1955) American writer
Source: Paint it Black
“If you do not want it to rain, always carry an umbrella.”
Andrzej Majewski (1966) Polish writer and photographer
Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)
“Put the nightmare together. If you do not wake up screaming, you have not put it together well.”
R. A. Lafferty (1914–2002) American writer
Prologue
The Devil is Dead (1971)