“I know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
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.”
Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2
“Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.”
Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor
“In the night all cats are gray.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
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.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
Eliezer Yudkowsky Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Harry Potter in Ch. 2 http://www.hpmor.com/chapter/2 <br class="br">Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (2010 - 2015)
“I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?”
Douglas Adams (1952–2001) English writer and humorist
“507. All Cats are alike grey in the Night.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)