278 Quotes by Jerome K. Jerome

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

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.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do...

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

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.

Cultivate," I said, "a sense of humor. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.