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Jerome K. Jerome

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Jerome K. Jerome belongs to that rare category of people whose words are more famous than their biography. Jerome K. Jerome's observations on Work are as sharp as their thoughts on Truth, revealing genuine breadth of mind. Browse 11 quotes by Jerome K. Jerome that cover ground from Work, Truth, Sympathy, Sad, and Nature. Readers often gravitate to this one: "I like work it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours."

“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

Sympathy

All Quotes by Jerome K. Jerome

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

— Jerome K. Jerome

Health

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

— Jerome K. Jerome

Nature

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

— Jerome K. Jerome

Government

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

— Jerome K. Jerome

Work

“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

Alone

“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

Business

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

— Jerome K. Jerome

Best

“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

Sympathy

“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

Sad