Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

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.

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

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction.

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.

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

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

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

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.

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.

One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.

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.