I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“Packing is one of those many things that I feel I know more about than any other person living. (It surprises me… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“I looked at the piles of plates and cups, and kettles, and bottles and jars, and pies and stoves, and cakes, and… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be called in… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach,… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“…I notice that people always make gigantic arrangements for bathing when they are going anywhere near the water, but that they don’t… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Cultivate," I said, "a sense of humor. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I saw a great Newfoundland dog the other day sitting in front of a mirror at the entrance to a shop in… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Cultivate a sense of humour. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“You start on Monday with the idea implanted in your bosom that you are going to enjoy yourself. You wave an airy… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“When George is hanged, Harris wil be the worst packer in this world” — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harries - no wild yearning for the unattainable. Harris never "weeps, he… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“Nothing is easier to write than scenery; nothing more difficult and unnecessary to read.” — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“The case was becoming serious. It was now past midnight. The hotels at Shiplake and Henley would be crammed; and we could… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“That is the only way to get a kettle to boil up the river. If it sees that you are waiting for… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“With me, it was my liver that was out of order. […] I had the symptoms, beyond all mistake, the chief among… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“Believe me, a highly strung brain such as yours demands occasional relaxation from the strain of domestic surroundings. Forget for a little… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left,… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“Occasionally the poster pictures a pair of cyclists; and then one grasps the fact how much superior for purposes of flirtation is… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
“How good one feels when one is full -- how satisfied with ourselves and with the world! People who have tried it,… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I have 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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses. — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image