Jerome K. Jerome

Cultivate," I said, "a sense of humor. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#humor

1lb beefstak, with 1pt bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don't stuff your head with things you don't understand. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#humour #jerome-k-jerome #medical #three-men-in-a-boat #men

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#three-men-in-a-boat #men

I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#men

I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#german #humor #sarcasm #men

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

#swearing #business

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

#humour #learning #music #men

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#humor #lies #victorian #imagination

if my name was on a serious work like this it would never get fair treatment. They would all say I had tried to be funny and failed. ↗

— Jerome K. Jerome

#weeds #funny

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

— Jerome K. Jerome

#drink #health #our #own #spoil