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

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Opportunities fly by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone Jerome K. Jerome

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

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

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

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A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it. Jerome K. Jerome

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The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. Jerome K. Jerome

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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. Jerome K. Jerome

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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. Jerome K. Jerome

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Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear. Jerome K. Jerome

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Affection will burn cheerily when the white flame of love is flickered out. Affection is a fire that can be fed from day to day and be piled up ever higher as the wintry years draw nigh. Jerome K. Jerome

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They dogs never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation. Jerome K. Jerome

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Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. Jerome K. Jerome

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

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I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life. Jerome K. Jerome

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Memory is a rare ghost-raiser. Like a haunted house, its walls are ever echoing to unseen feet. Jerome K. Jerome

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A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven. Jerome K. Jerome

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There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas — something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ghosts, like the dampness of the summer rains brings out the frogs and snails. Jerome K. Jerome

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Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need— a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing. Jerome K. Jerome

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Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself. Jerome K. Jerome

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Swearing relieves the feelings - that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings. Jerome K. Jerome

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We drink one another's healths and spoil our own. Jerome K. Jerome

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Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house— out of place and in the way, Jerome K. Jerome

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Virtue lies like the gold in quartz: there is not very much of it and much pain has to be spent on the extracting of it. Jerome K. Jerome

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One of the problems of social life is to know what to say to one another when we meet; every man and woman's desire is to appear sympathetic and clever, and this makes conversation difficult, because, taking us all around, we are neither sympathetic nor clever. Jerome K. Jerome

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