Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome Klapka Jeromewas an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth2 May 1859
cat opinion enough
A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.
love memories pain
When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.
angel may way
Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.
book reading cows
What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.
baby children kids
Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be called in at once.
ambition vanity
Ambition is only vanity ennobled.
quality faults failing
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.
baby attention firsts
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.
play iron evil
Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.
sad fun humorous
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.
business people doe
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.
mean fighting men
If a man stopped me in the street and demanded of me my watch, I should refuse to give it to him. If he threatened to take it by force, I feel I should, though not a fighting man, do my best to protect it. If, on the other hand, he should assert his intention of trying to obtain it by means of an action in any court of law, I should take it out of my pocket and hand it to him, and think I had got off cheaply.
sea fishing two
So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count each fish that he caught as ten, and to assume ten to begin with. For example, if he did not catch any fish at all, then he said he had caught ten fish - you could never catch less than ten fish by his system; that was the foundation of it. Then, if by any chance he really did catch one fish, he called it twenty, while two fish would count thirty, three forty, and so on.
bulls benefits institutions
A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull.