Jerome K. Jerome Quotes

But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don’t show it, but grumble with the rest.

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

We drink one another’s health and spoil our own.

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.

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

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn’t be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.