all cats are grey in the dark

English

Etymology

Attributed to Benjamin Franklin, explaining why to take an older woman to bed[1], but appears in John Heywood's book of proverbs (1546) as 'When all candles bee out all cattes be gray.'

Proverb

all cats are grey in the dark

  1. In the dark, physical appearance is unimportant.

Translations

References
  1. Schiff, Stacy. A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. New York: Henry Holt, 2005. →ISBN. Page 236.
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