278 Quotes by Jerome K. Jerome

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.

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.

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

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.

Idling has always been my strong point.

Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.