“The weather is like the government, always in the wrong”

Entry in progress—B.P.
 
Wikipedia: Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889).
 
Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and several other novels.
 
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The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow:
A Book for an Idle Holiday
By Jerome Klapka Jerome
New York, Y: Henry Holt and Company
1890
Pg. 78:
It is always wretched weather, according to us. The weather is like the Government, always in the wrong. In summer time we say it is stifling; in winter that it is killing; in spring and autumn we find fault with it for being neither one thing nor the other, and wish it would make up its mind.