Douglas William Jerrold - Time Quotes

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Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

Douglas William Jerrold

He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.

Douglas William Jerrold

What a fine-looking thing is war!
Yet, dress it as we may, dress and feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it,--what is it, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform!

Douglas William Jerrold

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

Douglas William Jerrold

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

Douglas William Jerrold