Jerome K. Jerome

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#work #humor

Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#kisses #like #must #stolen #sweet

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

#sleep #humor

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

#humour #weather #humor

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

— Jerome K. Jerome

#humor

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

— Jerome K. Jerome

#being #come #love #more #once

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

#humor

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

#men

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#men

I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#humour #thinking #funny