“I love May's first storms:
chuckling, sporting spring
grumbles in mock anger;
young thunder claps.”
Fyodor Tyutchev (1803–1873) Russian poet
A Spring Storm
“The storm had now definitely abated, and what thunder there was now grumbled over more distant hills, like a man saying 'And another thing…' twenty minutes after admitting he'd lost the argument.”
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Attributed
“Did I not say that Xanthippe was thundering now, and would soon rain?”
Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher
Diogenes Laertius