"Politics Makes Strange Bed-Fellows"; No Bad Weather

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at YAHOO.COM
Mon Feb 7 01:33:50 UTC 2005


?1794 Anthony Pasquin A Crying Epistle from Britannia to Colonel Mack (London: H. D. Symonds & J. Ridgway, n.d.) 84: "But necessity makes us acquainted with strange bedfellows."

(Within quotes, so presumably already proverbial.)

1800 William Gifford The Baviad and the Maeviad (London: J. Wright, 1800) 117:
I can only say that politics, like misery, "bring a man acquainted with strange bedfeloows."

"Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows," is from The Tempest II ii.


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_Workingman's Advocate_, Mar 10, 1832, Vol. 3, Iss. 30, p. 1
Verily, politics _do_ make strange bedfellows.

--Ben Zimmer

He's a tough cookie. This is close.


(EARLY AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS)
Headline: [Bennington; Judge Rising; Councillor; Manchester];
Paper: Vermont Gazette; Date: 1831-06-28; Vol: XLVIII
Pgae 3:
This ambition which besets men, frequently brings them "acquainted with strange bed-fellows," and altho' doubts and darkness rest upon the question, as to the degrees of bitterness and hatred cherished against the friends of the administration, and comparatively, which hates them worst, anti-masons or the aristocratic party--shall we stand on debateable ground, called non-comittal, until we see who else is to be put in nomination.

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THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS BAD WEATHER, ONLY WRONG CLOTHES

The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs, pg. 12, has this from 1980. It's not explained that the original quote is from Ruskin. You think these London fellows would get a quote like this correct.


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New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Jun 6, 1907. p. 5 (1 page):
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Special from Monitor BureauFRANK RUTTER.. Christian Science Monitor (1908-Current file). Boston, Mass.: Jan 25, 1926. p. 12 (1 page):
John Ruskin once observed to a friend of the present writer, who had injudiciously complained at the downpour through which they were trudging the streets of London, "Bad weather! There is no such thing as bad weather, sir. There are only different sorts of good weather."


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PHILIP HEWITT-MYRING. Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File). Los Angeles, Calif.: Nov 24, 1927. p. 2 (1 page) :
Social life in England is planned on the assumption that no such thing as bad weather exists.


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Christian Science Monitor (1908-Current file). Boston, Mass.: Jan 30, 1928. p. 13 (1 page):
THERE is no such thing as bad weather--there are only different kinds of good weather.--Ruskin.


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New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.: Jul 17, 1929. p. 24 (1 page) :
Mr. Scarr said there was "no such thing as bad weather, just different kinds of good weather."


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Special from Monitor Bureau. Christian Science Monitor (1908-Current file). Boston, Mass.: Sep 16, 1931. p. 8 (1 page):
IT HAS been wisely said that there is no such thing as bad weather, but only bad dressing for the weather.


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By Helen Johnson Keyes Special from The Christian Science Monitor Bureau. Christian Science Monitor (1908-Current file). Boston, Mass.: Jul 17, 1935. p. 8 (1 page):
IT WAS a wise man who once said, "There is no such thing as bad weather, only bad dressing for the weather." When this assertion was made, 20 and more years ago, there was a greater amount of bad dressing for the weather than there is today.


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Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File). Los Angeles, Calif.: Jan 12, 1936. p. H2 (1 page):
For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do make it pulse more vigorously.


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D W TOMLINSON. Los Angeles Times (1886-Current File). Los Angeles, Calif.: Mar 7, 1937. p. I7 (2 pages)
First page:
...it follows that the air and the airplane offer the only potentialities for the future for travel in what seems the single known region where there is no such thing as bad weather.


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Christian Science Monitor (1908-Current file). Boston, Mass.: May 28, 1940. p. 12 (1 page):
This was what I had been waiting for, and I responded glibly, "Someone has said there is no such thing as bad weather, there are only good clothes."


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Christian Science Monitor (1908-Current file). Boston, Mass.: Apr 23, 1946. p. 17 (1 page) :
A friend was complaining to Ruskin about the weather.

"Why, Henry," rejoined the genial philosopher, "there's really no such thing as bad weather."

"No?" was the doubtful retort.

"No," replied Ruskin. "Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces you up, snow is exhilarating--all different kinds of good weather!"


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Chicago Daily Tribune (1872-1963). Chicago, Ill.: Sep 4, 1950. p. C1 (1 page):
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