Ambition is only vanity ennobled. Jerome K. Jerome More Quotes by Jerome K. Jerome More Quotes From Jerome K. Jerome I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination Jerome K. Jerome sea lakes rivers Cultivate a sense of humour. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good. Jerome K. Jerome lunch humorous views The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially. Jerome K. Jerome hate clever people Idling has always been my strong point. Jerome K. Jerome strong The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. Jerome K. Jerome revenge doe men There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Jerome K. Jerome occupation fun happiness The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man. Jerome K. Jerome wine sight men Man, if he would live, must worship. He looks around, and what to him, within the vision of his life, is the greatest and the best, that he falls down and does reverence to. Jerome K. Jerome vision men fall I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion. Jerome K. Jerome respect too-much truth I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since. Jerome K. Jerome humorous funny school There are various methods by which you may achieve ignominy and shame. By murdering a large and respected family in cold blood and afterward depositing their bodies in the water companies' reservoir, you will gain much unpopularity in the neighborhood of your crime, and even robbing a church will get you cordially disliked, especially by the vicar. But if you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human creature can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby "it. Jerome K. Jerome mother baby blood It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, whole boat-loads of them; but I never met a man yet, on land, who had ever known at all what it was to be sea-sick. Where the thousands upon thousands of bad sailors that swarm in every ship hide themselves when they are on land is a mystery. Jerome K. Jerome land sea men What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over Jerome K. Jerome upset eye doe It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one. Jerome K. Jerome faults failing quality A boy's muscles move quicker than his thoughts. Jerome K. Jerome muscles boys moving 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 business doe people Swearing relieves the feelings - that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings. Jerome K. Jerome aunt humorous funny Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. Jerome K. Jerome time sweet funny I also think pronunciation of a foreign tongue could be better taught than by demanding from the pupil those internal acrobatic feats that are generally impossible and always useless. This is the sort of instruction one receives : “Press your tonsils against the underside of your larynx. Then with the convex part of the septum curved upwards so as almost — but not quite — to touch the uvula, try with the tip of your tongue to reach your thyroid. Take a deep breath, and compress your glottis. Now without opening your lips say "Garoo".' And when you have done it they are not satisfied. Jerome K. Jerome done trying thinking All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible. Jerome K. Jerome vanity vain men
