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24 quotes by Jerome K. Jerome

Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humourist, 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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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 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.

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

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Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

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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... →

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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.

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

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

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We drink one another's health and spoil our own.

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