Quotes of Jerome K. Jerome - somelinesforyou

“ It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. ”

- 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

“ I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ I like work; it fascinates me; I can sit and look at it for hours. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ 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

“ How good one feels when one is full how satisfied with ourselves and with the world! People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his motherinlaw died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ (Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around themthe soft singing of the waters, the wisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing windshould not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this. They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not. ”

- 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

“ You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harris no wild yearning for the unattainable. Harris never "weeps, he knows not why." If Harris's eyes fill with tears, you can bet it is because Harris has been eating raw onions, or has put too much Worcester over his chop. If you were to stand at night by the seashore with Harris, and say: "Hark! do you not hear? Is it but the mermaids singing deep below the waving waters; or sad spirits, chanting dirges for white corpses held by seaweed?" Harris would take you by the arm, and say: "I know what it is, old man; you've got a chill. Now you come along with me. I know a place round the corner here, where you can get a drop of the finest Scotch whisky you ever tasted put you right in less than no time." Harris always does know a place round the corner where you can get something brilliant in the drinking line. I believe that if you met Harris up in Paradise (supposing such a thing likely), he would immediately greet you with: "So glad you've come, old fellow; I've found a nice place round the corner here, where you can get some really firstclass nectar. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ (Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that God had made so bright! Strange that Nature's voices all around themthe soft singing of the waters, the wisperings of the river grass, the music of the rushing windshould not have taught them a truer meaning of life than this. They listened there, through the long days, in silence, waiting for a voice from heaven; and all day long and through the solemn night it spoke to them in myriad tones, and they heard it not. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ We drink one another's health and spoil our own. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ He does love prophesying a misfortune, does the average British ghost. Send him out to prognosticate trouble to somebody, and he is happy. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas — something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ghosts, like the dampness of the summer rains brings out the frogs and snails. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ 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 it nearly breaks my heart. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas — something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ghosts, like the dampness of the summer rains brings out the frogs and snails. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ I do think that, of all the silly, irritating tomfoolishness by which we are plagued, this "weather-forecast" fraud is about the most aggravating. It "forecasts" precisely what happened yesterday or the day before, and precisely the opposite of what is going to happen today. ”

- 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

“ I do think that, of all the silly, irritating tomfoolishness by which we are plagued, this "weather-forecast" fraud is about the most aggravating. It "forecasts" precisely what happened yesterday or the day before, and precisely the opposite of what is going to happen today. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.". ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ Let your boat of life be light, packed only with what you need — a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and to love you, a cat, a dog, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink, for thirst is a dangerous thing. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ 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 it nearly breaks my heart. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.". ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ Let your boat of life be light, packed only with what you need — a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and to love you, a cat, a dog, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink, for thirst is a dangerous thing. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome

“ We drink one another's health and spoil our own. ”

- Jerome K. Jerome
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