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
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.
mother baby blood
There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it.
winning games play
Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.
years giving fifty
Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.
life facts fiction
The facts of life are the impossibilities of fiction.
love-is weakness natural
Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.