Jerome K. Jerome Humorous Quotations

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.

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.

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.

I saw a great Newfoundland dog the other day sitting in front of a mirror at the entrance to a shop in Regent's Circus, and examining himself with an amount of smug satisfaction that I have never seen equaled elsewhere outside a vestry meeting.

The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself.

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

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