Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

• I did not know I was a humorist. I have never been sure about it. In the middle ages, I should probably have gone about preaching and got myself burned or hanged.

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• 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.

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• We drink one another’s healths, and spoil our own.

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• If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

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

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• Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

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• I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.

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• I don’t know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

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

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

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

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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.

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• If you are foolish enough to be contented, don’t show it, but grumble with the rest.

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

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• Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

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

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

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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.

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• There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

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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.

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Birth:	2nd May, 1859
Death:	14th June, 1927
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author, Humorist, Novelist

About

Jerome Klapka Jerome was born in Caldmore, Walsall, Staffordshire, England. He was an English author, humourist and novelist. He wrote several novels include: Three Men in a Boat, Diary of a Pilgrimage, Three Men on the Bummel, Paul Kelver, and All Roads Lead To Calvary. He wrote other books include: Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (collection of essays), Told After Supper, The Angel and the Author (essays), and My Life and Times (memoir).

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