About Jerome K. Jerome: Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889).
What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over
I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination
Harris, as he occasionally explains to George and to myself, has daughters of his own, or, to speak more correctly, a daughter, who as the years progress will no doubt cease practising catherine wheels in the front garden , and will grow up into a be...
Um auf das Faltblatt für Leberpillen zurückzukommen, so trafen die Symptome ohne jeden Zweifel auf mich zu, vor allem das der 'generellen Aversion gegen physische und mentale Anstrengungen'. Man kann sich gar nicht vorstellen, wie ich darunter leid...
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.
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
