"If you are foolish enough to be contented,……" — Jerome K. Jerome
"If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest."
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108 Quotes by Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome K. Jerome has 108 quotes on this site.
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I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my…
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The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they…
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Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we…
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Ambition is only vanity ennobled.
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Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be…
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What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a…
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Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state,…
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When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their…
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A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make…
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Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
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I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet ... the evenings…
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The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked…
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Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the…
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To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but…
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Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the…
— Orison Swett Marden
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Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
— Thomas Carlyle
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In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low,…
— Henry Highland Garnet
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What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something…
— Dorothy Gilman
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Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you…
— John Hay
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Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find?…
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