Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

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.

We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.

I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.

But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

A woman never thoroughly cares for her
lover until he has ceased to care for her; and it is not until you have
snapped your fingers in Fortune's face and turned on your heel that she
begins to smile upon you.