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
moving boys muscles
A boy's muscles move quicker than his thoughts.
men effort matter
It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.
funny sweet time
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
weather house way
Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way.
lying autumn night
I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet ... the evenings in late autumn time, when the white mist creeps across the fields, making it seem as though old Earth, feeling the night air cold to its poor bones, were drawing ghostly bedclothes round its withered limbs.
children memories believe
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.
drinking health sickness
We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.
dog four foxes
Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.
horse men two
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.
clever hate people
The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially.
love love-is love-is-like
Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
knowing weather want
But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.
home house want
I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
friendship wise dog
He is very imprudent, a dog; he never makes it his business to inquire whether you are in the right or the wrong, never asks whether you are rich or poor, silly or wise, sinner or saint. You are his pal. That is enough for him.