The Good Quote
Open menu
Quotes
Authors
Topics
More
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
Home
Authors
Jerome K. Jerome
English
Author
About the author
It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome,
English
Author
#Policy
#Truth
A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Jerome K. Jerome,
English
Author
#End
#Responsibility
#Sense
But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
Jerome K. Jerome,
English
Author
#Man
#Mother
Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.
Jerome K. Jerome,
English
Author
#Man
#Conceit
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
Jerome K. Jerome,
English
Author
#Want
#Men
#Nature
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,
English
Author
#Life
#Fun
#Will
#Joy
#Sadness
I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Jerome K. Jerome,
English
Author
#Work
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
Jerome K. Jerome,
English
Author
#Idleness
#Kisses
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.
Jerome K. Jerome,
English
Author
#Rest
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.
Jerome K. Jerome,
English
Author
#Man
#Universe
#Labor
It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar.
Jerome K. Jerome,
English
Author
#Policy
#Truth
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
Jerome K. Jerome,
English
Author
#World
#Crime
#Man
#Poor
#Men
#Poverty
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
Jerome K. Jerome,
English
Author
#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.
Jerome K. Jerome,
English
Author
#Sympathy
#Faults
It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
Jerome K. Jerome,
English
Author
#Love
#People
#Being
Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
Jerome K. Jerome,
English
Author
#Love
Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young for the young, that is the beginning of life. But the love of the old for the old, that is the beginning of things longer.
Jerome K. Jerome,
English
Author
#Life
#Love
#Nothing
#Old
#Beginning
#Storms
One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.
Jerome K. Jerome,
English
Author
#Life
#Values
People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
Jerome K. Jerome,
English
Author
#People
#Business
#Conscience
The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
Jerome K. Jerome,
English
Author
#Weather
#Government
#Wrong
There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.
Jerome K. Jerome,
English
Author
#Fun
#Nothing
It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.
Jerome K. Jerome,
English
Author
#Being
#Disease
#Suffering
#Medicine
We drink one another's health and spoil our own.
Jerome K. Jerome,
English
Author
#Health
What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
Jerome K. Jerome,
English
Author
#Disguise
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
Jerome K. Jerome,
English
Author
#Time
#World
#Eternity
#Shadow