Quotes & anectdotes from
the wise,
the foolish,
the courageous &
the drunk

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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