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Nothing is easier to write than scenery; nothing more difficult and unnecessary to read.
— Jerome K. Jerome
Leave me, before I get over the wall & slay you.
— Jerome K. Jerome
There is no pathos in real misery, no luxury in real grief.
— Jerome K. Jerome
Nature was beautiful, even in her tears
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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.
— Jerome K. Jerome
If he didn't want his opinion,why did he ask for it?
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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
— Jerome K. Jerome
There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.
— Jerome K. Jerome
Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.
— Jerome K. Jerome
It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.
— Jerome K. Jerome
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
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Has he been snatched up to heaven?" I queried. "They'd hardly have taken the pie too," said George.
— Jerome K. Jerome
about the strains of "He's got 'em on," jerked
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Each person has what he doesn't want, and other people have what he does want. Married
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If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.
— Jerome K. Jerome
A boy's muscles move quicker than his thoughts.
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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.
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I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.
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As our means increase, so do our desires;and we ever stand midway between the two.
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It always is Christmas Eve, in a ghost story.
("Introduction" to TOLD AFTER SUPPER) — Jerome K. Jerome
("Introduction" to TOLD AFTER SUPPER) — Jerome K. Jerome
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.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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.
— Jerome K. Jerome
I like a bit of fun myself. But not if you've got to pay for it. Where's the fun in that?
— Jerome K. Jerome
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.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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.
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It is wonderful what an insight into domestic economy being really hard up gives one.
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Ambition is only vanity ennobled.
— Jerome K. Jerome
as for exercise! why, you'll get more exercise, sitting down on that ship, than you would turning somersaults on dry land.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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.
— Jerome K. Jerome
We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.
— Jerome K. Jerome
It seems to be the rule of this world. Each person has what he doesn't want, and other people have what he does want.
— Jerome K. Jerome
Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.
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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.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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
— Jerome K. Jerome
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.
— Jerome K. Jerome
Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.
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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.
— Jerome K. Jerome
The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.
— Jerome K. Jerome
It takes 3 girls to tow always; two to hold the rope, and the other one runs round and round, and giggles.
— Jerome K. Jerome
There are many families where the whole interest of life is centered upon the dog.
— Jerome K. Jerome
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.
— Jerome K. Jerome
It all comes of being so attractive, as the old lady said when she was struck by lightning.
— Jerome K. Jerome
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
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Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago, has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.
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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.
— Jerome K. Jerome
One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.
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If I am guilty," said the Earl, "may this bread choke me when I eat it!
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We drink one another's health and spoil our own.
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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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No man alive has more sound commonsense than I have, if only I were capable of listening to myself. Do
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Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.
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Cultivate," I said, "a sense of humor. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.
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Such is life; and we are but as grass that is cut down, and put into the oven and baked.
— Jerome K. Jerome
All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.
— Jerome K. Jerome
Speak truth, and right will take care of itself.
— Jerome K. Jerome
It was quick work. He came, he saw, I conquered!
— Jerome K. Jerome
Idling has always been my strong point.
— Jerome K. Jerome
I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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.
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It is in the petty details, not in the great results, that the interest of existence lies.
— Jerome K. Jerome
I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.
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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.
— Jerome K. Jerome
In a boat, I have always noticed that it is the fixed idea of each member of the crew that he is doing everything.
— Jerome K. Jerome
A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull.
— Jerome K. Jerome
I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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.
— Jerome K. Jerome
Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way.
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Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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.
— Jerome K. Jerome
That's Harris all over - so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.
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Nobody ever loved as he loves, and so, of course, the rest of the world's experience can be no guide in his case.
— Jerome K. Jerome
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.
— Jerome K. Jerome
I had glanced half down the list of
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What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over
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What I'm looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
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It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
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Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).
— Jerome K. Jerome
Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.
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We like, we cherish, we are very, very fond of - but we never love again.
— Jerome K. Jerome
Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.
— Jerome K. Jerome
A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.
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It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.
— Jerome K. Jerome
Don't rely too much upon that unsteady flicker.
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It's really extraordinary what a variety of ways of loving there must be. We all do it as it was never done before.
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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.
— Jerome K. Jerome
We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.
— Jerome K. Jerome
The greatest minds never realise their ideals in any matter;
— Jerome K. Jerome
Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.
— Jerome K. Jerome
A boy's love comes from a full heart; a man's is more often the result of a full stomach.
— Jerome K. Jerome
The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction.
— Jerome K. Jerome
A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.
— Jerome K. Jerome
Resolutions were made for man, not man for resolutions.
— Jerome K. Jerome
The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
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who weighs about twelve stone.
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I answered that I thought he would never smile again.
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Information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness. Its pages form the record of events that really happened. All that has been done
— Jerome K. Jerome
Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.
— Jerome K. Jerome
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
— Jerome K. Jerome