When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them. Jerome K. Jerome More Quotes by Jerome K. Jerome More Quotes From Jerome K. Jerome All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible. Jerome K. Jerome vanity vain men It takes 3 girls to tow always; two to hold the rope, and the other one runs round and round, and giggles. Jerome K. Jerome girl running two A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull. Jerome K. Jerome institutions bulls benefits It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one. Jerome K. Jerome attention baby firsts Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses. Jerome K. Jerome weakness natural love-is I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee. Jerome K. Jerome knees twenties letters Truth and fact are old-fashioned and out-of-date, my friends, fit only for the dull and vulgar to live by. Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-brown solid earth; we build our lives and homes in the fair-seeming rainbow-land of shadow and chimera. Jerome K. Jerome dog clever home 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 strong average men I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck. Jerome K. Jerome healthy reading men 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 more sadness than joy in life. Jerome K. Jerome sad humorous fun Harris said, however, that the river would suit him to a "T." I don't know what a "T" is (except a sixpenny one, which includes bread-and- butter and cake AD LIB., and is cheap at the price, if you haven't had any dinner). It seems to suit everybody, however, which is greatly to its credit. Jerome K. Jerome cake credit rivers If a man stopped me in the street and demanded of me my watch, I should refuse to give it to him. If he threatened to take it by force, I feel I should, though not a fighting man, do my best to protect it. If, on the other hand, he should assert his intention of trying to obtain it by means of an action in any court of law, I should take it out of my pocket and hand it to him, and think I had got off cheaply. Jerome K. Jerome fighting men mean So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count each fish that he caught as ten, and to assume ten to begin with. For example, if he did not catch any fish at all, then he said he had caught ten fish - you could never catch less than ten fish by his system; that was the foundation of it. Then, if by any chance he really did catch one fish, he called it twenty, while two fish would count thirty, three forty, and so on. Jerome K. Jerome fishing sea two Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way. Jerome K. Jerome house weather way I saw a great Newfoundland dog the other day sitting in front of a mirror at the entrance to a shop in Regent's Circus, and examining himself with an amount of smug satisfaction that I have never seen equaled elsewhere outside a vestry meeting. Jerome K. Jerome humorous dog funny It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.... We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment. Then virtue and contentment will come and reign within your heart, unsought by any effort of your own; and you will be a good citizen, a loving husband, and a tender father—a noble, pious man. Jerome K. Jerome health husband father I like cats.... When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stoop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat sticks up its tail in a rigid, cast-iron manner, arches its back, and wipes its nose up against my trousers; and all is gentleness and peace. Jerome K. Jerome pussy iron cat When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. Jerome K. Jerome adversity wind men 1lb beefstak, with 1pt bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don't stuff your head with things you don't understand. Jerome K. Jerome beer morning night A new life begins for us with every second. Let us go forward joyously to meet it. We must press on, whether we will or not, and we shall walk better with our eyes before us than with them ever cast behind. Jerome K. Jerome walks eye new-life
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