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Jerome K. Jerome [1859-1927] English

Rank: 102
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Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat.
Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and several other novels.

Alone, Business, Funny, Government, Health, Men, Moving On, Nature, Sad, Sympathy, Truth, Work

Quote	Tags	Rank
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.	Funny	101
Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.		102
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.	Work	103
Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.	Moving On	104
We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.	Alone	105
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.	Men, Nature	106
The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.	Government	107
There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.		108
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.	Truth	109
One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.		110
We drink one another's health and spoil our own.	Health	111
But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.		112
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.	Sad	113
People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.	Business	114
It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.		115
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.		116
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.		117
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.	Sympathy	118
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.		119
Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.		120
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 blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.		121
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.		122
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.		123
A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.		124

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