
“I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories
“I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.”
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
“Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.”
“In the night all cats are gray.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33.
“people run from rain but
sit
in bathtubs full of
water.”
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?”
“507. All Cats are alike grey in the Night.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)