Jerome K. Jerome Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. A woman never thoroughly cares for herlover until he has ceased to care for her; and it is not until you havesnapped your fingers in Fortune's face and turned on your heel that shebegins to smile upon you. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

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

3. 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. Three Men in a Boat

4. 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. Three Men in a Boat

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

6. It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

7. We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without. Three Men in a Boat

8. You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harris- no wild yearning for the unattainable. Harris never "weeps, he knows not why." If Harris's eyes fill with tears, you can bet it is because Harris has been eating raw onions, or has put too much Worcester over his chop.If you were to stand at night by the sea-shore with Harris, and say:"Hark! do you not hear? Is it but the mermaids singing deep below the waving waters; or sad spirits, chanting dirges for white corpses held by seaweed?" Harris would take you by the arm, and say: "I know what it is, old man; you've got a chill. Now you come along with me. I know a place round the corner here, where you can get a drop of the finest Scotch whisky you ever tasted- put you right in less than no time."Harris always does know a place round the corner where you can get something brilliant in the drinking line. I believe that if you met Harris up in Paradise (supposing such a thing likely), he would immediately greet you with:"So glad you've come, old fellow; I've found a nice place round the corner here, where you can get some really first-class nectar. Three Men in a Boat