Jerome K Jerome Famous Quotes
"It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."
"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."
"Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company."
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 breaks my heart.
I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K Jerome Quotations
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
Jean Rostand
No call alligator long mouth till you pass him.
Jamaican Proverb
"Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny, he thinks he is in the world for something important and it gives him drive and confidence."
Benjamin McLane Spock
Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Anytime I see something screech across a room and latch onto someone's neck, and the guy screams and tries to get it off, I have to laugh, because what IS that thing"
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
You've got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old - whatever 'the old' means for you.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."
George Bernard Shaw
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw
"A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the center of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said 'What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise.' The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, 'What is the turtle standing on' 'You're very clever, young man, very clever,' said the little old lady. 'But it's turtles all the way down.'"
Stephen William Hawking
"Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system."
Stuart Stevens