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A Banker Lends You His Umbrella When It’s Sunny and Wants It Back When It Rains. Mark Twain? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: It has been remarkably difficult to obtain a loan in the current financial climate. When I finally succeeded I was reminded of this quote: A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Mark Twain is sometimes credited with this remark, but I know that means little. It seems every clever remark is eventually attributed to Twain. Could you figure out who really said it? Quote Investigator: You are correct to doubt the ascription of the saying to Mark Twain. The invaluable Twain. Quotes website of Barbara Schmidt has a webpage dedicated to this adage with the following warning notice . The following words were published in a London- based weekly for chartered accountants .
The first cite found by QI attributing the remark to Mark Twain is dated 1. In 1. 94. 9 the adage was credited to the famous poet Robert Frost.
Here are additional selected citations in chronological order. In 1. 90. 7 a different type of quip with a similar theme was published in a Pennsylvanian newspaper in a section called “Funny Side of Life”. This joke did not mention bankers, but it used wordplay on the term “fair- weather”. A “fair- weather friend” was unwilling to lend an umbrella in poor weather . The journal is described thusly: A Quarterly Publication Devoted to Comments on Foreign Books. A book written in French by Philippe Girardet was reviewed by Harold A.
Larrabee, and the reviewer translated a version of the maxim under investigation into English . Girardet, however, for his definition of a banker as “a man who will gladly lend you a parasol when the sun shines, but who pitilessly refuses you an umbrella when it rains.”Union College. Larrabee. This version was more elaborate than the common saying because it mentions a parasol and an umbrella.
The parasol corresponds to a loan that is easy to obtain when economic conditions are favorable, and the umbrella corresponds to a loan that is difficult to obtain when conditions are unfavorable. In January 1. 93. The Journal of Business of the University of Chicago” included a version of the saying that was similar to the modern expression . A banker, according to this definition, is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and insists upon its return as soon as it starts to rain.
In December 1. 93. The International Digest” used the maxim . This citation was located by top researcher Barry Popik whose website lists several others. Here the metaphor is extended to explain and justify the behavior of bankers . It would be more correct to say that the banker, at the beginning of a storm which might turn the umbrella inside out, demands that you do not open it, but stay indoors.
In 1. 94. 4 Bennett Cerf who published several volumes of anecdotes credited Mark Twain with the maxim . In his book “The Dictionary of Humorous Quotations” he included an entry ascribing a version of the words to Mark Twain and another entry crediting the renowned poet Robert Frost . Federal Reserve, used the adage in a paper he co- wrote with the economist Mark Gertler. The phrase was attributed to the satirist Ambrose Bierce . Because of these problems, credit can be extended more freely and at lower cost to borrowers who already have strong financial positions (hence, Ambrose Bierce’s definition of a banker as someone who lends you an umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back when it starts to rain). In conclusion, the first instances of this maxim are anonymous. Years later, famous people such as Mark Twain, Robert Frost, and Ambrose Bierce were implausibly attached to the quotation.
The core idea appeared by 1. Thanks for your question, and I hope you obtained favorable terms for your loan. Larrabee”, Page 1. Volume 2, Number 4, University of Oklahoma Press.
Edie, Page 2. 1, Volume III, Number 1, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois. Rukeyser, Economic Commentator, International News Service.