Quotes

What the eye does not see, the stomach does not get upset over. ~ Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome Fox terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs are. ~ Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams. ~ Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome I do think that, of all the silly, irritating tomfoolishness by which we are plagued, this "weather-forecast" fraud is about the most aggravating. It "forecasts" precisely what happened yesterday or the day before, and precisely the opposite of what is going to happen today. ~ Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. ~ Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley "The proper study of mankind is books." ~ Crome Yellow by Aldous Huxley One never can tell from the sidewalk just what the view is to some one on the inside, looking out. ~ Knocking the Neighbors by George Ade When Wealth walks in the door, the Press Agent comes in through the window. ~ Knocking the Neighbors by George Ade They had been brought up in the School of Hard Knocks. ~ Knocking the Neighbors by George Ade "I have not slept one wink." ~ Cymbeline by William Shakespeare