Jerome K. Jerome Quotes and Quotations
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.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No, if it were, men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It's a blunder, though, and is punished as such.
I want a house that has gotten over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Let your boat of life be light, packed only with what you need-a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and to love you, a cat, a dog, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink, for thirst is a dangerous thing.
Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.