Quotes from Jerome K. Jerome

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

In the present instance, going back to the liver-pill circular, I had the symptoms, beyond all mistake, the chief among them being "a general disinclination to work of any kind.

times Mayor of Abingdon—was, no doubt, a benefactor to his generation, but I hope there are not many of his kind about in this overcrowded nineteenth century.

To hang about a stable, and collect a gang of the most disreputable dogs to be found in the town, and lead them out to march round the slums to fight other disreputable dogs, is Montmorency's idea of "life;" and so, as I before observed, he gave to the suggestion of inns, and pubs., and hotels his most emphatic approbation.

Has he been snatched up to heaven?" I queried. "They'd hardly have taken the pie too," said George.

I am alone and the road is very dark. I stumble on, I know not how nor care, for the way seems leading nowhere, and there is no light to guide. But at last the morning comes, and I find that I have grown into myself.

The music of life would be mute if the chords of memory were snapped asunder.

the less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be. 

Three invalids.—Sufferings of George and Harris.—A victim to one hundred and seven fatal maladies.—Useful prescriptions.—Cure for liver complaint in children.—We agree that we are overworked, and need rest.—A week on the rolling deep?—George suggests the River.—Montmorency lodges an objection.—Original motion carried by majority of three to one.

What you have to do, Veronica, is, with a full heart, to praise Heaven that this is not a perfect world. If it were I doubt very much, Veronica, your being here. That you are here happy and thriving proves that all is not as it should be.

I like a bit of fun myself. But not if you've got to pay for it. Where's the fun in that?

You get yourself born, says the German Government to the German citizen, we do the rest. Indoors and out of doors, in sickness and in health, in pleasure and in work, we will tell you what to do, and we will see to it that you do it. Don't you worry yourself about anything. And the German doesn't.

We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.

To the grave-faced JESTER to whom all life is but a volume of old humour -

The mildest tempered people, when on land, become violent and blood-thirsty when in a boat. 

No, there is nothing at all funny in poverty—to the poor. It is hell upon earth to a sensitive man; and many a brave gentleman who would have faced the labors of Hercules has had his heart broken by its petty miseries.

the German has had the blessed fortune to be exceptionally well governed; if this continues, it will go well with him. When his troubles will begin will be when by any chance something goes wrong with the governing machine

Mrs. Postwhistle's theory was that although very few people in this world understood their own business, they understood it better than anyone else could understand it for them. If

The pool under Sandford lasher, just behind the lock, is a very good place to drown yourself in.

Such is life; and we are but as grass that is cut down, and put into the oven and baked. To

Bir insan?n, hayat?ndaki de?erli ve bir daha ya?anaca??n?n garantisi olmayan anlar? uyuyarak harcamas? bana hep canice gelir.

Medical science was in a far less advanced state than now, and they used to put it down to laziness.

A DEPUTATION It consists of two men and three women. Superior people would call them Cranks. But Cranks have been of some service to the world, and the use of superior people is still to be discovered.

O inglês típico, sabemos pelo velho cronista Froissart, aprecia seus prazeres com angústia; já a mulher inglesa vai um passo além: é na própria angústia que busca o prazer.