Quotes By Jerome K. Jerome

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

Jerome K. Jerome

Being Love People
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.

Jerome K. Jerome

Labor Man Universe
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.

Jerome K. Jerome

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

Jerome K. Jerome

Men Nature Want
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.

Jerome K. Jerome

Being Disease Medicine Suffering
One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.

Jerome K. Jerome

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

Jerome K. Jerome

Policy Truth
It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.

Jerome K. Jerome

Policy Truth
We drink one another’s health and spoil our own.

Jerome K. Jerome

Health
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Jerome K. Jerome

Work
Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.

Jerome K. Jerome

Beginning Life Love Nothing Old Storms
There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

Jerome K. Jerome

Fun Nothing
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

Business Conscience People
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

Jerome K. Jerome

Idleness Kisses
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

Crime Man Men Poor Poverty World
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don’t show it, but grumble with the rest.

Jerome K. Jerome

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

Jerome K. Jerome

Eternity Shadow Time World
Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

Jerome K. Jerome

Conceit Man
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Jerome K. Jerome

Disguise
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.

Jerome K. Jerome

Faults Sympathy
A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Jerome K. Jerome

End Responsibility Sense
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

Jerome K. Jerome

Fun Joy Life Sadness Will
Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

Jerome K. Jerome

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

Jerome K. Jerome

Work
The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

Jerome K. Jerome

Government Weather Wrong
Profession: Author
Nationality: English
Birth Date: 2nd May, 1859
Death Date: 14th Jun, 1927

Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889).

Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat, and several other novels.


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