Quotes by Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

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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. — Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without. — Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harris- no wild yearning for the unattainable. Harris never "weeps, — Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
The day has been so full of fret and care, and our hearts have been so full of evil and of bitter thoughts, and the worl — Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about — Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad. — Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless ou — Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
When Montmorency meets a cat, the whole street knows about it; and there is enough bad language wasted in ten seconds to — Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except i — Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I l — Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
I knew a young fellow once, who was studying to play the bagpipes, and you would be surprised at the amount of oppositio — Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
George got out his banjo after supper, and wanted to play it, but Harris objected: he said he had got a headache, and di — Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
He told us that it had been a fine day to-day, and we told him that it had been a fine day yesterday, and then we all to — Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and ha — Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
It is a curious fact, but nobody ever is sea-sick - on land. At sea, you come across plenty of people very bad indeed, w — Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck. — Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
Harris said, however, that the river would suit him to a "T." I don't know what a "T" is (except a sixpenny one, which i — Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housema — Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat