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
stars eye wings
After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, "Now, rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into Nature and into life; spread your white wings of quivering thought, and soar, a god-like spirit, over the whirling world beneath you, up through long lanes of flaming stars to the gates of eternity!
inspirational time shadow
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
poor trifles known
Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.
sleep insomnia men
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.
medicine suffering disease
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.
hands games skills
Life is a thing to be lived, not spent; to be faced, not ordered. Life is not a game of chess, the victory to the most knowing; it is a game of cards, one's hand by skill to be made the best of.
blow men diversity
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.
life wise sometimes
Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.
imagination fisherman should
I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination
strong
Idling has always been my strong point.
one-direction balance gains
Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.
boys ashamed wells
It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.
happiness fun occupation
There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.
dream men sea
There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.