Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

“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

“It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; 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 nearly...”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

topic:work

“I can’t sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

topic:work

“That's Harris all over—so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

topic:work responsibility

“There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.”

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

topic:work

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

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

topic:madness mind

“Six shillings a week does not keep body and soul together very unitedly. They want to get away from each other when there is only such a very slight bond as that between them”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

topic:poverty money

“And we would all try to do it in our heads, and all arrive at different results, and sneer at one another.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

topic:mind difference

“The greatest minds never realise their ideals in any matter;”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

topic:greatness

“Let us gather together in the great cities, and light huge bonfires of a million gas-jets, and shout and sing together, and feel brave.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

topic:light bravery

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