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
boys passing-away might
I will not take up your time, dear boy, with telling you what is the matter with me. Life is brief, and you might pass away before I had finished. But I will tell you what is NOT the matter with me. I have not got housemaid’s knee. Why I have not got housemaid’s knee, I cannot tell you; but the fact remains that I have not got it. Everything else, however, I HAVE got.
moving boys muscles
A boy's muscles move quicker than his thoughts.
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.
faults follies
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.
There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.
law man
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.
health
We drink one another's health and spoil our own.
humorous lunch views
Cultivate," I said, "a sense of humor. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.
children mistake men
Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.
cat iron pussy
I like cats.... When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stoop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat sticks up its tail in a rigid, cast-iron manner, arches its back, and wipes its nose up against my trousers; and all is gentleness and peace.
people would-be might
Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble.
work sleep failing
Better to work and fail than to sleep one's life away.
watches care morality
We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment.
book writing age
I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I have never been sure about it. In the middle ages, I should probably have gone about preaching and got myself burnt or hanged.