Three Men in a Boat Quotes

“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

“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

“What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

topic:eyes

“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.”

― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

topic:misery

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