Jerome Quotes
That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.
I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.
There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.
Cultivate a sense of humour. From a humorous point of view this lunch is rather good.
Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient.
The test of the moral quality of a civilization is its treatment of the weak and powerless.
I only want the truth to be known, for everyone to take responsibility for their actions.
Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug.
Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another.
Evil thought is a dangerous pet. It is safer to play with it from behind the iron bars of circumstance.
marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!
What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?
Only by recognizing the boundaries of our socially constructed scientific-technological reality can we transcend them in imagination and then achieve effective human action.
I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish.
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our nobler qualities. It is in our follies that we are at one.
hate isn't healthy, it damages the hater more than the one who's hated!
Give an average baby a fair chance, and if it doesn't do something it oughtn't to a doctor should be called in at once.
What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.
It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their way, but we, poor mortals, in our present state, would probably find them precious slow company.