Talk:Charles Bowen, Baron Bowen

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Lord Charles Bowen, Baron Bowen was justifiably noted for his many erudite rulings in the British Law Courts. Perhaps his most incisive and verbally economic observation from a legal and socialogical perspective is as follows:

“The rain it raineth on the just And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, because The unjust steals the just’s umbrella.”

That says it all really. A fine brain must have lived beneath that wig.

B.B., Dublin

Variations:

http://groups.google.com.au/group/soc.culture.canada/msg/45004625f75bd38c?dmode=print has

>The rain it falleth on the just

>And on the unjust fella

>But chiefly on the just,

>Because the unjust stole the just's umbrella.

http://www.gordonmoyes.com/2008/02/08/the-blessings-of-the-rain/ has

“When it rains, It rains on the just

And also on the unjust fella;

But chiefly on the just, because

The unjust has stolen the just’s umbrella.” (Lord Bowen 1923)

http://au.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071128210736AAvbmhw has

"Rain falleth upon the just

And rain falleth upon the unjust

But more rain falleth upon the just

Than the unjust fella'

'cause the unjust steals

The just's umbrella"

http://groups.google.com.au/group/sci.anthropology.paleo/msg/3b8cb2e5199047bc?dmode=print has

The rain, it raineth on the Just and the Unjust fella.

But chiefly on the Just because

The Unjust steals the Just's umbrella.

The actual quote is:

'The rain it raineth on the just

And also on the unjust fella:

But chiefly on the just, because

The unjust steals the just's umbrella.'

and comes from 'Sichel, Sands of Time' by Charles Bowen, 1st Baron.

I don't mind so much the inaccuracies in the quote, but the lack of attribution is pretty poor.

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~rckew/Thoughts.htm has

God sends his rain upon the just and upon the unjust fella; but more upon the just because the unjust has pinched the just’s umbrella.’

Emphasis is mine.

And then, of course, there's the version in the article.

—DIV (128.250.80.15 (talk) 03:48, 8 March 2008 (UTC))