About Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889). Other works include the essay collections Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) and Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow; Three Men...
More quotations from Jerome K. Jerome
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
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I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.
Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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