There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

About Jerome K. Jerome

Jerome Klapka Jeromewas an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boatand Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men on the Bummel, a sequel to Three Men in a Boat; and several other novels.

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There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.

Jerome K. Jerome

English humorist (1859-1927)

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

Jerome K. Jerome

English humorist (1859-1927)

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 humorist (1859-1927)

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

Jerome K. Jerome

English humorist (1859-1927)

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 humorist (1859-1927)

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 humorist (1859-1927)

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

Jerome K. Jerome

English humorist (1859-1927)

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

Jerome K. Jerome

English humorist (1859-1927)

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

Jerome K. Jerome

English humorist (1859-1927)

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 humorist (1859-1927)

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 humorist (1859-1927)

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

Jerome K. Jerome

English humorist (1859-1927)

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 humorist (1859-1927)

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

Jerome K. Jerome

English humorist (1859-1927)

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

Jerome K. Jerome

English humorist (1859-1927)

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

Jerome K. Jerome

English humorist (1859-1927)

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 humorist (1859-1927)

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 humorist (1859-1927)

A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Jerome K. Jerome

English humorist (1859-1927)

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

Jerome K. Jerome

English humorist (1859-1927)

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

Jerome K. Jerome

English humorist (1859-1927)

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

Jerome K. Jerome

English humorist (1859-1927)

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 humorist (1859-1927)

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

Jerome K. Jerome

English humorist (1859-1927)

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

Jerome K. Jerome

English humorist (1859-1927)