Citations:it never rains but it pours


 * 1772, Samuel Paterson (anonymously), Joineriana, or the Book of Scraps, Joseph Johnson, Vol. I, page 44.
 * Given as an example of a trite expression it would be "childish" to attribute to someone:
 * It never rains, but it pours !—‘as my grandmother uſed to ſay.’ [italics in original]