“When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.”
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Tom Waits79
American singer-songwriter and actor 1949Related quotes
“Keep your best whiskey in a bottle marked ‘mouthwash.”
Pat Cadigan book Synners
Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 5 (p. 57)
“There may be a time when we'll attend Weather Theatres to recall the sensation of rain.”
Jim Morrison (1943–1971) lead singer of The Doors
Source: The Lords and The New Creatures
“When it's raining pudding, hold up your bowl.”
Sandra Dallas American writer
Source: Prayers for Sale
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
A popular internet misattribution.[citation needed] A number of variants of the "rain on your parade" theme appear, with different sources
Misattributed
“At very best, a person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878–1969) American pastor
A very similar statement has become attributed to Benjamin Franklin, but apparently only in recent decades: "A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle." This seems to have been first attributed to Franklin in The New Age Magazine Vol. 66 (1958), and the earliest appearance of it yet located is in Coronet magazine, Vol. 34 (1953), p. 27, where it was attributed to a Louise Stein.
On Being a Real Person (1943)
Elvis Costello (1954) English singer-songwriter
She's watching the detectives.
When they shoot, shoot, shoot, shoot.
They beat him up until the teardrops start,
But he can't be wounded 'cause he's got no heart.
Song lyrics
Source: Watching the Detectives (1977)