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If the minority is able to successfully undo the Affordable Care Act by blackmail, it will be the undoing of the democratic nature of our government.
— Jerrold Nadler
Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Quality, not quantity, is my measure.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Love the sea? I dote upon it
from the beach. — Douglas William Jerrold
from the beach. — Douglas William Jerrold
That questionable superfluity small beer.
— Douglas William Jerrold
We do not need torture as an available instrument of interrogation.
— Jerrold Nadler
Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Jewels! It's my belief that when woman was made, jewels were invented only to make her the more mischievous.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Humor is the harmony of the heart.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Wishes, at least, are the easy pleasures of the poor.
— Douglas William Jerrold
The sharp employ the sharp.
— Douglas William Jerrold
A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.
— Douglas William Jerrold
There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Troubles are like babies - they only grow by nursing.
— Douglas William Jerrold
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.
— Jerrold Nadler
Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Luck, mere luck may make even madness wisdom.
— Douglas William Jerrold
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.
— Douglas Jerrold
I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights)
— Jerrold Mundis
Nature designed us to be of good cheer.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Tradition in the nursery has acted as a severe editor.
— Walter Jerrold
Grumblers deserve to be operated upon surgically; their trouble is usually chronic.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Man owes two solemn debts
one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first. — Douglas William Jerrold
one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first. — Douglas William Jerrold
A blessed companion is a book
a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend ... a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own. — Douglas William Jerrold
a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend ... a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own. — Douglas William Jerrold
We love peace, but not peace at any price.
— Douglas William Jerrold
The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Wits, like drunken men with swords, are apt to draw their steel upon their best acquaintances.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.
— Douglas William Jerrold
If an earthquake were to engulf England tomorrow, the English would manage to meet and dine somewhere among the rubbish, just to celebrate the event.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
— Douglas William Jerrold
The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
— Douglas William Jerrold
We are all slaves to the shining metal.
— Douglas William Jerrold
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Thousands die each year because they are uninsured or under-insured.
— Jerrold Nadler
Government by blackmail is incompatible with democracy.
— Jerrold Nadler
He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
— Douglas William Jerrold
The blackest of fluid is used as an agent to enlighten the world.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Slugs crawl and crawl over our cabbages, like the world's slander over a good name. You may kill them, it is true; but there is the slime.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
— Douglas William Jerrold
That man is thought a dangerous knave, Or zealot plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Dogmation is puppyism come to its full growth.
— Douglas William Jerrold
O this itch of the ear, that breaks out at the tongue! Were not curiosity so over-busy, detraction would soon be starved to death.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Literature, like a gypsy, to be picturesque, should be a little ragged.
— Douglas William Jerrold
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.
— Douglas William Jerrold
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
— Douglas William Jerrold
God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.
— Douglas William Jerrold
A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.
— Douglas Jerrold
Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.
— Douglas William Jerrold
He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Malice blunts the point of wit.
— Douglas William Jerrold
What women would do if they could not cry, nobody knows. What poor, defenceless creatures they would be!
— Douglas William Jerrold
Torture, including practices like waterboarding, violates the legal and moral standards of all civilized nations.
— Jerrold Nadler
I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Let's drive the message home: we need health insurance reform, we need a strong public option, and we won't settle for less.
— Jerrold Nadler
Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Etiquette has no regard for moral qualities.
— Douglas William Jerrold
A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks.
— Douglas William Jerrold
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
— Douglas William Jerrold
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Gravity is more suggestive than convincing.
— Douglas William Jerrold
A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
— Douglas William Jerrold
As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.
— Douglas William Jerrold
I would like to have a second chance at my first love.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.
— Douglas William Jerrold
The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Some of 'em [virtues] like extinct volcanoes,
with a strong memory or fire and brimstone. — Douglas William Jerrold
with a strong memory or fire and brimstone. — Douglas William Jerrold
It is not the role of Congress to decide legal cases between private parties. That is why we have courts.
— Jerrold Nadler
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
— Douglas William Jerrold
— Douglas William Jerrold
Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.
— Douglas William Jerrold
Fix yourself upon the wealthy. In a word, take this for a golden rule through life: Never, never have a friend that is poorer than yourself.
— Douglas William Jerrold
In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
— Douglas William Jerrold