Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

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If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

Jerome K. Jerome
The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.

Jerome K. Jerome
In the future there are going to be no pretty girls, for the simple reason there will be no plain girls against which to contrast them. Of late I have done some systematic reading of ladies papers. The plain girl submits to a course of "treatment." In eighteen months she bursts upon Society an acknowledged beauty.

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When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

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A new life begins for us with every second. Let us go forward joyously to meet it. We must press on, whether we will or not, and we shall walk better with our eyes before us than with them ever cast behind.

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It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.

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Fox terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs are...

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There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.

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I saw a great Newfoundland dog the other day sitting in front of a mirror at the entrance to a shop in Regent's Circus, and examining himself with an amount of smug satisfaction that I have never seen equaled elsewhere outside a vestry meeting.

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The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself.

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You can always tell the old river hand by the way in which he stretches himself out upon the cushions at the bottom of the boat, and encourages the rowers by telling them anecdotes about the marvellous feats he performed last season..

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A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull.

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Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.

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Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God

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It's really extraordinary what a variety of ways of loving there must be. We all do it as it was never done before.

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Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.

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Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way.

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Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.

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Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).

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Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible.

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That is just the way with Memory; nothing that she brings to us is complete. She is a willful child; all her toys are broken. I remember tumbling into a huge dust-hole when a very small boy, but I have not the faintest recollection of ever getting out again; and if memory were all we had to trust to, I should be compelled to believe I was there still.

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It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.

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A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

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Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.

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Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera.

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It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.

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I do think that of all the silly, irritating tomfoolishness by which we are plagued, this "weather-forecast" fraud is about the most aggravating. It "forecasts" precisely what happened yesterday or the day before, and precisely the opposite of what is going to happen today.

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It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is seasick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat-loads of them; but I never met a man yet, on land, who had ever known at all what it was to be seasick.

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Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.

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The less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be.

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