Jerome K. Jerome Quotes - Famous Quotes by Jerome K. Jerome
Born: 1859-05-02
Died: 1927-06-19
Jerome K. Jerome Biography
Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.
- Jerome K. Jerome
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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
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I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
- Jerome K. Jerome
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I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
- Jerome K. Jerome
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Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
- Jerome K. Jerome
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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
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It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
- Jerome K. Jerome
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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
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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
- Jerome K. Jerome
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Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
- Jerome K. Jerome
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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
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Time has laid its healing hand upon the wound when we can look back at the the pain we once fainted under, and no bitterness or despair arises in our heart.
- Jerome K. Jerome, "Idle thought of an Idle Fellow"
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What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
- Jerome K. Jerome
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When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.
- Jerome K. Jerome
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