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
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.
women heaven good-woman
A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.
sleep men priceless
It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life - the priceless moments that will never come back to him again - being wasted in a mere brutish sleep.
success work stress
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
wine men glasses
A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon.
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.
land clouds rainbow
There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.
imagination fisherman should
I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination
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.
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.
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.
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!
adversity men wind
When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.
falling-in-love wine play
Eat good dinners and drink good wine; read good novels if you have the leisure and see good plays; fall in love, if there is no reason why you should not fall in love; but do not pore over influenza statistics.