22 Quotes by Jerome Jerome
- It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
- A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
- But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
- Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.
- I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
- I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
- Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
- If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.
- 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.
- It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.
- 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.
- It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
- It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
- It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
- Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
- 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.
- The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
- There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.
- It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.
- We drink one another's health and spoil our own.
- What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
- Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
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