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Jerome K. Jerome Novelist

  • Gender: Male
  • Citizenship: England
  • Born: May 2, 1859
  • Died: Jun 14, 1927

Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat.

Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and several other novels.

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

It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. It is in our follies that we are one. sympathy

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

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong. government

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar. best, good & truth

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

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe. alone

Thanksgiving November 28, 2024

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest. 32 more thoughts from William Blake

32 more thoughts from William Blake

Drink and be thankful to the host! What seems insignificant when you have it, is important when you need it. 6 more thoughts from Franz Grillparzer

6 more thoughts from Franz Grillparzer

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received. 2 more quotes from Storm Jameson

2 more quotes from Storm Jameson

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do. 73 quotes from Victor Hugo

73 quotes from Victor Hugo