Quotes by Jerome K. Jerome

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

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

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

Idleness like kisses to be sweet must be stolen.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No if it were men wouldnt be ashamed of it. Its a blunder though and is punished as such.

I want a house that has got over all its troubles I dont want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

I want a house that has gotten over all its troubles I dont want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

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.

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.

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.

Love is like the measles we all have to go through it.

We drink one anothers health and spoil our own.

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.

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

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.