Цитата из книги «Трое в лодке, не считая собаки / Three Men in a Boat (to Say Nothing of the Dog)»

But who wants to be foretold the weather? When it becomes bad enough, we don’t want to have the misery of knowing about it beforehand. The prophet we like is the old man who, on the particularly gloomy-looking morning of some day when we particularly want it to be fine, looks round the horizon with a particularly knowing eye, and says