Jerome K. Jerome Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome K. Jerome Famous Quotes & Sayings
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If my name was on a serious work like this it would never get fair treatment. They would all say I had tried to be funny and failed.
Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God
It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.
George goes to sleep at a bank from ten to four each day, except Saturdays, when they wake him up and put him outside at two.
Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be called in at once.
There are the goods; if you want them, you can have them. If you do not want them, they would almost rather that you did not come and talk about them.
A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.
It must have been worth while having a mere ordinary plague now and then in London to get rid of both the lawyers and the Parliament.
Life was not an idle dream to be gaped and yawned through, but a noble task, full of duty and stern work.
But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.
I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.
No man alive has more sound commonsense than I have, if only I were capable of listening to myself. Do
It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.
I had a tame rat when I was a boy, and I loved that animal as only a boy would love an old water-rat
We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.
Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble.
And we would all try to do it in our heads, and all arrive at different results, and sneer at one another.
Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.
The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially.
as for exercise! why, you'll get more exercise, sitting down on that ship, than you would turning somersaults on dry land.
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.
Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago, has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.
But we are so blind to our own shortcomings, so wide awake to those of others. Everything that happens to us is always the other person's fault.
One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
It takes 3 girls to tow always; two to hold the rope, and the other one runs round and round, and giggles.
I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
Information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness. Its pages form the record of events that really happened. All that has been done
Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.
"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"
That's Harris all over - so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.
I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.
In a boat, I have always noticed that it is the fixed idea of each member of the crew that he is doing everything.
A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull.
Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.
I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.
When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.
It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.
To be misunderstood is the shy man's fate on every occasion; and whatever impression he endeavors to create, he is sure to convey its opposite.
Let us gather together in the great cities, and light huge bonfires of a million gas-jets, and shout and sing together, and feel brave.
The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.
It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.
It's really extraordinary what a variety of ways of loving there must be. We all do it as it was never done before.