Quotes from Douglas William Jerrold

The sharp employ the sharp.

Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely who require credit.

The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.

God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.

Nothing is so beneficial to a young author as the advice of a man whose judgment stands constitutionally at the freezing-point.

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.

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

We love peace, but not peace at any price.

Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in stranger's gardens.

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing, but a supply of toothpicks.

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.

Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.

Marriage is like wine. It is not properly judged until the second glass.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.