Jerome Klapka Jerome, 1859 - 1927
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs archive (ca. 1948)
Born: 2 May 1859, Walsall, Staffordshire, England, UK
Died: 14 June 1927, Northampton, England, UK
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- A boy's love comes from a full heart; a man's is more often the result of a full stomach. Indeed, a man's sluggish current may not be called love, compared with the rushing fountain that wells up when a boy's heart is struck with the heavenly rod. If you would taste love, drink of the pure stream that youth pours out at your feet. Do not wait till it has become a muddy river before you stoop to catch its waves. permalink
Jerome K. Jerome - "On Being in Love" in Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) - Ah! how delicious it is to turn over and go to sleep again: "just for five minutes." Is there any human being, I wonder, besides the hero of a Sunday-school "tale for boys," who ever gets up willingly? permalink
Jerome K. Jerome - "On Being Idle" in Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) - All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men — more so, if possible. permalink
Jerome K. Jerome - "On Vanity and Vanities" in Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) - 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. permalink
Jerome K. Jerome - 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. permalink
Jerome K. Jerome - 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. permalink
Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat (1889) - Conceit is the finest armor that a man can wear. Upon its smooth, impenetrable surface the puny dagger-thrusts of spite and envy glance harmlessly aside. Without that breast-plate the sword of talent cannot force its way through the battle of life, for blows have to be borne as well as dealt. permalink
Jerome K. Jerome - "On Being Shy" in Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) - Contented, unambitious people are all very well in their way. They form a neat, useful background for great portraits to be painted against, and they make a respectable, if not particularly intelligent, audience for the active spirits of the age to play before. I have not a word to say against contented people so long as they keep quiet. permalink
Jerome K. Jerome - "On Getting on in the World" in Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) - Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses. permalink
Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat (1889) - Foolish people — when I say "foolish people" in this contemptuous way I mean people who entertain different opinions to mine. If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do. permalink
Jerome K. Jerome - "On Eating and Drinking" in Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) - For the man sound in body and serene in mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. permalink
Jerome K. Jerome - How good one feels when one is full — how satisfied with ourselves and with the world! 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. permalink
Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat (1889) - 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. permalink
Jerome K. Jerome - 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. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it. permalink
Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat (1889) - I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me. permalink
Jerome K. Jerome - Three Men in a Boat (1889)
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