Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

“Such is life; and we are but as grass that is cut down, and put into the oven and baked.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

topic:life

“this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

topic:life

“He said it made him feel that life was not an idle dream to be gaped and yawned through, but a noble task, full of duty and stern work.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

topic:life work

“Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear,...”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

topic:life need simplicity

“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.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

topic:happiness

“The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

topic:truth

“the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me. 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 mere brutish sleep.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

topic:time

“It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

topic:self stupidity pleasure

“We told each other that Nature was beautiful, even in her tears.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

topic:beauty nature

“Sunlight is the life-blood of Nature. Mother Earth looks at us with such dull, soulless eyes, when the sunlight has died away from out of her.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

topic:nature sun

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