But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
Source: Three Men in a Boat, Ch. 3
-- Jerome K Jerome, (May 2 1859-1927), English author; His warm, unsatirical, and unintellectual humour won him wide following, e.g., Three Men in a Boat, 1889.