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Jerome K Jerome
We drink one...
We drink one another's health and spoil our own.
Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle...
If you are...
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.
If you desire...
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for...
But there, everything...
But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for...
The shy man...
The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain...
Time is but...
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
Source: In The...
It is impossible...
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Mere bald fabrication...
Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro [fisherman] can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail,...
I like work:...
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 is always...
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good...
Angels may be...
Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably...
Idleness, like kisses,...
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle...
I want a...
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...
It is in...
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. . . . It is in our...
Conceit is the...
Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.
Source: Idle Thoughts of an Idle...
I can see...
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always...
Among all nations...
Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in Silence and listen to it, for it...
Love is like...
Love is like the measles; we all have to go through with it.
Source: Idle Thoughts...
The weather is...
The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
Source: Idle Thoughts of...
It is a...
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the...