Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel Quotes

“You know we are on wrong track altogether. We must not think of things we could do with, but only of things we can't do without.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel

“I agreed with George, and suggested we should seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel

“There were four of us—George, and William Samuel Harris, and myself, and Montmorency. We were sitting in my room, smoking, and talking about how bad we were—bad from a medical point of view I mean, of course.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel

“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. You cannot give me too much work; to accumulate work has almost become a passion with me; my study is so full of it now that there is hardly an inch of room for any more.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel

“far from the madding crowd,”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel

“And don’t stuff up your head with things you don’t understand.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel

“I walked into that reading-room a happy healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel

“Bright’s disease, I was relieved to find, I had only in a modified form, and, so far as that was concerned, I might live for years. Cholera I had, with severe complications; and diphtheria I seemed to have been born with. I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid’s knee.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel