Douglas William Jerrold Quotes

Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.

God said, "Let us make man in our image." Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.

It takes all sorts of people to make a world.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

What a fine-looking thing is war! Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!

Patience is the strongest of strong drinks; for it kills the giant despair.

Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.

The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps.

A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to his loving Pythias. A book that — at a touch — pours its heart into our own.

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.

Modesty is a bright dish-cover, which makes us fancy there is something very nice underneath it.

Man owes two solemn debts--one to society, and one to-nature. It is only when he pays the second that he covers the first.

Intemperance is the epitome of every crime, the cause of every kind of misery.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

A man never so beautifully shows his own strength as when he respects a woman's softness.

Keep your eyes and ears open, if you desire to get on in the world.

Love the sea? I dote upon it--from the beach.