CategoryHumorous Memoir

I can’t sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do.

Jerome K Jerome – Three Men in a Boat

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

Jerome K Jerome – Three Men in a Boat

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

Jerome K Jerome – Three Men in a Boat

After all, what is life anyway? We’re born, we live a little while, we die.

Jerome K Jerome – Three Men in a Boat

There is nothing does irritate me more than seeing other people sitting about doing nothing when I’m working.

Jerome K Jerome – Three Men in a Boat

Montmorency looked as if he knew something about the matter too, but said nothing.

Jerome K Jerome – Three Men in a Boat

We never ought to allow our instincts of justice to degenerate into mere vindictiveness.

Jerome K Jerome – Three Men in a Boat

That’s Harris all over – so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs of other people.

Jerome K Jerome – Three Men in a Boat

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don’t show it, but grumble with the rest.

Jerome K Jerome – Three Men in a Boat

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

Jerome K Jerome – Three Men in a Boat