A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Man, if he would live, must worship. He looks around, and what to him, within the vision of his life, is the… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
If a man stopped me in the street and demanded of me my watch, I should refuse to give it to him.… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life - the priceless moments that will never… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“George goes to sleep at a bank from ten to four each day, except Saturdays, when they wake him up and put him outside… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share
“He would use a bit of string this time, and at the critical moment, when the old fool was leaning over the chair at… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share
Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share
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… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share
Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share
We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share
“There was no ground-floor — its ground-floor belonged to a house in the next court, and the front door opened direct upon a flight… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share
“I can understand the ignorant masses loving to soak themselves in drink—oh, yes, it's very shocking that they should, of course—very shocking to us… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share
They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share
“And we sit there, by its margin, while the moon, who loves it too, stoops down to kiss it with a sister’s kiss, and… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share
“The only feeling that a closer intimacy has created in him for his wife is that of indulgent contempt. As there is no equality… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share
Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest; and if you can do with a little,… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share
Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share
“You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harris- no wild yearning for the unattainable. Harris never "weeps, he knows not why."… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share
