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
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
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
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 are the goods; if you want them, you can have them. If you do not want them, they would almost rather… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love,… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
That is just the way with Memory; nothing that she brings to us is complete. She is a willful child; all her… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted… — 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
There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count… — 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
