It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. Jerome K Jerome
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. Jerome K Jerome
The weather is like the government, always in the wrong. Jerome K Jerome
The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is able, to a certain extent, to communicate his misery. He frightens other people as much as they frighten him. He acts like a damper upon the whole room, and the most jovial spirits become, in his presence, depressed and nervous. Jerome K Jerome
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K Jerome
If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being can pour out for you, let a young mother hear you call dear baby ‘it’. Jerome K Jerome
Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake. Mere bald fabrication is useless; the veriest tyro can manage that. It is in the circumstantial detail, the embellishing touches of probability, the general air of scrupulous – almost of pedantic – veracity, that the experienced angler is seen. Jerome K Jerome
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. Jerome K Jerome