"He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain." -Douglas Jerrold 
"Don't sit under an umbrella waiting for it to rain."
"Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky." -Jerzy Kosinski
"They say I leave at night by the window of my tower, hanging from a red umbrella with which I set fire to the forest!" -Camille Claudel
"The American people never carry an umbrella. They prepare to walk in eternal sunshine." -Alfred E. Smith
