Jarrell Jerome Quotes

Leave me, before I get over the wall & slay you. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

The greatest minds never realise their ideals in any matter; ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Don't rely too much upon that unsteady flicker. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

It is wonderful what an insight into domestic economy being really hard up gives one. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

I had glanced half down the list of ~ Jerome K. Jerome

It all comes of being so attractive, as the old lady said when she was struck by lightning. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

If he didn`t want his opinion,why did he ask for it? ~ Jerome K. Jerome

It was quick work. He came, he saw, I conquered! ~ Jerome K. Jerome

I can't say I altogether blame the man (which is doubtless a great relief to his mind). ~ Jerome K. Jerome

It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Ambition is only vanity ennobled. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Throw the lumber over, man! ~ Jerome K. Jerome

I answered that I thought he would never smile again. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Nature was beautiful, even in her tears ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Speak truth, and right will take care of itself. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Life was not an idle dream to be gaped and yawned through, but a noble task, full of duty and stern work. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

The ways we miss our lives are life. ~ Randall Jarrell

I like a bit of fun myself. But not if you've got to pay for it. Where's the fun in that? ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Habits are happiness of a sort ... ~ Randall Jarrell

Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Jarrell was not so much a father ... as an affectionate encyclopedia. ~ Mary Von Schrader Jarrell

I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Idling has always been my strong point. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

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

Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago, has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Nobody ever loved as he loves, and so, of course, the rest of the world's experience can be no guide in his case. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Such is life; and we are but as grass that is cut down, and put into the oven and baked. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

It is in the petty details, not in the great results, that the interest of existence lies. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

One example of a solid but inexplicable fact, ruling all human affairs - your fireworks won't go off while the crowd is around. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

It must have been worth while having a mere ordinary plague now and then in London to get rid of both the lawyers and the Parliament. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

as for exercise! why, you'll get more exercise, sitting down on that ship, than you would turning somersaults on dry land. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Art is long, and critics are the insects of a day. ~ Randall Jarrell

Do you not remember me?" whispered the Dream. "We had long talks together. The morning and the noonday pass. The evening still is ours. The twilight also brings its promise. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

It seems to be the rule of this world. Each person has what he doesn't want, and other people have what he does want. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

We are all so to speak intellectuals about something. ~ Randall Jarrell

But we are so blind to our own shortcomings, so wide awake to those of others. Everything that happens to us is always the other person's fault. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

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. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Mrs. Postwhistle's theory was that although very few people in this world understood their own business, they understood it better than anyone else could understand it for them. If ~ Jerome K. Jerome

George goes to sleep at a bank from ten to four each day, except Saturdays, when they wake him up and put him outside at two. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

The truth is, we each of us have an inborn conviction that the whole world with everybody and everything in it, was created as a sort of necessary appendage to ourselves. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

I do like cats. They are so unconsciously amusing. There is such a comic dignity about them, such a "How dare you!" "Go away, don't touch me" sort of air. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

And we would all try to do it in our heads, and all arrive at different results, and sneer at one another. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

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

To be misunderstood is the shy man's fate on every occasion; and whatever impression he endeavors to create, he is sure to convey its opposite. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

It's really extraordinary what a variety of ways of loving there must be. We all do it as it was never done before. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

The less taste a person has in dress, the more obstinate he always seems to be. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

A boy's love comes from a full heart; a man's is more often the result of a full stomach. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

We drink one another's health and spoil our own. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Many poets ... write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia. ~ Randall Jarrell

Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God ~ Jerome K. Jerome

I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best. ~ Randall Jarrell

There is in this world no line so bad that someone won't someday copy it. ~ Randall Jarrell

I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

The chief beauty of this book lies not so much in its literary style, or in the extent and usefulness of the information it conveys, as in its simple truthfulness. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

There are many families where the whole interest of life is centered upon the dog. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors. ~ Randall Jarrell

Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen. ~ Randall Jarrell

All the hate and scorn and love of a deep nature, such as the shy man is ever cursed by, fester and corrupt within, instead of spending themselves abroad, and sour him into a misanthrope and cynic. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!" ~ Jerome K. Jerome

To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all. ~ Randall Jarrell

All of them are gone except for me; and for me nothing is gone. ~ Randall Jarrell

Rest and a complete change," said George. "The overstrain upon our brains has produced a general depression throughout the system. Change of scene, and absence of the necessity for thought, will restore the mental equilibrium. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

You can always tell the old river hand by the way in which he stretches himself out upon the cushions at the bottom of the boat, and encourages the rowers by telling them anecdotes about the marvellous feats he performed last season. ~ 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. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

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

Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Students would have no need to "walk the hospitals," if they had me. I was a hospital in myself. All they need do would be to walk round me, and, after that, take their diploma. Then ~ Jerome K. Jerome

There is an iron "scold's bridle" in Walton Church. They used these things in ancient days for curbing women's tongues. They have given up the attempt now. I suppose iron was getting scarce, and nothing else would be strong enough. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

The blind date that has stood you up: your life. ~ Randall Jarrell

Doesn't the world need the painter's praise anymore? ~ Randall Jarrell

I never knew you played the banjo!" cried Harris and I, in one breath.
"Not exactly," replied George: "but it's very easy, they tell me; and I've got the instruction book!"
From Three Men in a Boat ~ Jerome K. Jerome

It must be eight years since I last saw Joseph Taboys. How pleasant it would be to meet his jovial face again, to clasp his strong hand, and to hear his cheery laugh once more! He owes me 14 shillings, too. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Resolutions were made for man, not man for resolutions. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

If you've been put in your place long enough you begin to act like the place. ~ Randall Jarrell

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it. ~ Randall Jarrell

Affection will burn cheerily when the white flame of love is flickered out. Affection is a fire that can be fed from day to day and be piled up ever higher as the wintry years draw nigh. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

Is an institution always a man's shadow shortened in the sun, the lowest common denominator of everybody in it? ~ Randall Jarrell

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

One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child. ~ Randall Jarrell

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

A glass of wine often makes me a better man than hearing a sermon. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

It is a most remarkable thing. I sat down with the full intention of writing something clever and original; but for the life of me I can't think of anything clever and original
at least, not at this moment. ~ Jerome K. Jerome

How can we expect novelists to be moral, when their trade forces them to treat every end they meet as no more than an imperfect means to a novel? ~ Randall Jarrell

The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed. ~ Randall Jarrell

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong. ~ Jerome K. Jerome