Quotes
Quotes - Jerrold
He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
That fellow would vulgarize the day of judgment.
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
The life of the husbandman,--a life fed by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.
Earth is here [Australia] so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
The ugliest of trades have their moments of pleasure. Now, if I were a grave-digger, or even a hangman, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.
A blessed companion is a book,--a book that fitly chosen is a life-long friend.
He was so good he would pour rose-water on a toad.
As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate;" and the water, put nought in it malice.
Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.
That questionable superfluity--small beer.
The life of the husbandman,--a life led by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven.
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
He who owns the soil, owns up to the sky. [Lat., Cujus est solum, ejus est usque ad coelum.]
After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
A sermon on a hat: "'The hat, my boy, the hat, whatever it may be, is in itself nothing--makes nothing, goes for nothing; but, be sure of it, everything is life depends upon the cock of the hat.' For how many men--we put it to your own experience, reader--have made their way through the thronging crowds that beset fortune, not by the innate worth and excellence of their hats, but simply, as Sampson Piebald has it, by 'the cock of their hats'? The cock's all."
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it.
As for the brandy, "nothing extenuate"; and the water, put nought in in malice.
Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it.
A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
