81 Famous Quotes By Jerome K. Jerome, The Celebrated English Essayist And Humorist
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it.
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.
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They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.
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.
It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.
It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.
Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.
I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.
It takes 3 girls to tow always; two to hold the rope, and the other one runs round and round, and giggles.
We like, we cherish, we are very, very fond of—but we never love again.
What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over
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.
If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do...
1lb beefstak, with 1pt bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don't stuff your head with things you don't understand.
Cultivate," I said, "a sense of humor. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.
Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.
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.
I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.
It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life - the priceless moments that will never come back to him again - being wasted in a mere brutish sleep.
Swearing relieves the feelings - that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings.
Idling has always been my strong point.
Nothing is easier to write than scenery; nothing more difficult and unnecessary to read.
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, ask for a great deal. Because if you don't you won't get any.
Nobody ever loved as he loves, and so, of course, the rest of the world's experience can be no guide in his case.
