Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

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

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Funny, Work, Humorous

  Three Men in a Boat ch. 15 (1889)

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• Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.44, Diderot Publishing

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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

  Funny, Truth, Liars

  The Idler Feb. 1892, p. 118

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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

  Love, Beautiful, Storm

  Jerome K. Jerome (2017). “Passing of the Third Floor Back”, p.21, The Floating Press

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

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Success, Work, Stress

  Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) "On Being Idle"

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• A new life begins for us with every second. Let us go forward joyously to meet it. We must press on, whether we will or not, and we shall walk better with our eyes before us than with them ever cast behind.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Eye, New Life, Walks

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.134, Jerome K. Jerome

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• Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Falling In Love, Wine, Play

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

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Happiness, Fake People, Humor

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• A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Women, Heaven, Good Woman

  Jerome K. Jerome “The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome”, Library of Alexandria

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• He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him.

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  Friendship, Wise, Dog

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.69, Jerome K. Jerome

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

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  Funny, Stupid, Silly

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.56, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• 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.

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  Happiness, Regret, Opportunity

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.133, Jerome K. Jerome

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• I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it.

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  Men, Hands, Pockets

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog”, p.62, Diderot Publishing

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

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  Years, Giving, Fifty

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.131, Jerome K. Jerome

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• The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Life, Fiction, Facts

  Jerome K. Jerome “The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome”, Library of Alexandria

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• A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Wine, Men, Glasses

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• Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.

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  Dog, Clever, Home

  Jerome K. Jerome “Clocks”, Library of Alexandria

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

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  Government, Weather, Hot Weather

  Jerome K. Jerome (2008). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.69, ReadHowYouWant.com

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

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  Eye, Upset, Doe

  Jerome K. Jerome (2014). “Three Men in a Boat”, p.185, BookRix

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

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  Inspirational, Time, Shadow

  Jerome K. Jerome “The Selected Work of Jerome K. Jerome”, Library of Alexandria

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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.

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  Life, Home, House

  They and I (1909) ch. 11

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• I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Respect, Truth, Too Much

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• They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.

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  Funny, Dog, Silly

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.68, Jerome K. Jerome

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• Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.

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  Hands, Games, Skills

  Jerome K. Jerome (2012). “The Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.135, The Floating Press

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• There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Happiness, Fun, Occupation

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.6, Sheba Blake Publishing

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