Jerome K. Jerome Short Quotes

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What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over

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Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

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

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We like, we cherish, we are very, very fond of—but we never love again.

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

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I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

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There are many families where the whole interest of life is centered upon the dog.

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

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

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If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.

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

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I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.

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I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

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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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All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men — more so, if possible.

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We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.

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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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Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.

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It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.

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It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

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

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I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

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Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

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I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

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Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago, has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

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

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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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