Quotes from Jerome K. Jerome

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

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.

Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.

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.

Man, if he would live, must worship. He looks around, and what to him, within the vision of his life, is the greatest and the best, that he falls down and does reverence to.

Think of the man who first tried German sausage.

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over

It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.

We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.

When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God

Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago," has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.

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.

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.

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.

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.

Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs are...

Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

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 partciular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form. The diagnosis seems in every case to correspond exactly with all the sensations that I have ever felt.

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.