“The sun did not shine.
It was too wet to play.
So we sat in the house
All that cold, cold, wet day.”

“Fine!" muttered Mogget. "Wet, cold, and full of holes. Another fun day on the river.”

Garth Nix book Abhorsen

“A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.”

Tori Amos book Piece by Piece

“Sitting in cold wet britches for an hour was no fun even in a magic kingdom.”

Katherine Paterson book Bridge to Terabithia

“It was a nasty day in late December, just before the holidays. The weather was cold, wet, and miserable—well, I said it was London, didn’t I?”

Frederik Pohl (1919–2013) American science fiction writer and editor

“Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.”

Holly Lisle (1960) American writer

“If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day,
You have to go places quite out of the way,
You have to go places no others can get to.
You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

“We get wet from the rain and sweat from the sun.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Cold Mountain cold
Ice freezes rock
Mountains are green
Snow is white
Sun shines bright
Every thing melt
Every thing warm
Warms old man”

Han-shan Chinese monk and poet

“I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.”

Dr. Seuss book The Cat in the Hat