Jerome K. Jerome

Quotes

• “George got out his banjo after supper, and wanted to play it, but Harris objected: he said he had got a headache, and di...”
• “It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, w...”
• “Be not the first by whom the new is tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside,” is a safe rule for those who would al...”
• “Harris said, however, that the river would suit him to a "T." I don't know what a "T" is (except a sixpenny one, which i...”
• “Let your boat of life be light packed only with what you need-a homely home and simple pleasures one or two friends wo...”
• “There is this advantage about German beer: it does not make a man drunk as the word drunk is understood in England. Ther...”
• “It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when y...”
• “He told us that it had been a fine day to-day, and we told him that it had been a fine day yesterday, and then we all to...”
• “In my youth, the question chiefly important to me was—What sort of man shall I decide to be? At nineteen one asks onesel...”
• “Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we ...”
• “There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas — something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ...”
• “It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love...”
• “It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enou...”
• “People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does th...”
• “When Montmorency meets a cat, the whole street knows about it; and there is enough bad language wasted in ten seconds to...”
• “If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little, as...”
• “They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of be...”
• “I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and ha...”
• “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 m...”
• “It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder though...”
• “I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of i...”
• “I want a house that has gotten over all its troubles I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and ...”
• “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 ine...”
• “It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies ...”
• “But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about...”
• “I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I beco...”
• “I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housema...”
• “There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except i...”
• “If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.”
• “I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.”
• “Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.”
• “As our means increase, so do our desires;and we ever stand midway between the two.”
• “I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination”
• “It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.”
• “The music of life would be mute if the chords of memory were snapped asunder.”
• “Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.”
• “What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over”
• “Love is like the measles we all have to go through it.”
• “If he didn`t want his opinion,why did he ask for it?”
• “What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.”
• “Idleness like kisses to be sweet must be stolen.”
• “We drink one another's health and spoil our own.”