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. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
Jerome K Jerome
The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
wrongs government
I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.
age men nature
A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
theend
Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
thetimes time
We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.
labor man help
But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
man
Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.
conceit man
It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.
poverty crime man men
Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.
mistakes moderation man
There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.
fun
work mind
It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.
emotions work
We drink one another's health and spoil our own.
health
The most extraordinary dream I ever had was one in which I fancied that, as I was going into a theater, the cloak-room attendant stopped me in the lobby and insisted on my leaving my legs behind me.
dreams
Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
idleness
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