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.

Jerome K. Jerome

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. Also like the measles, we take it only once.

Jerome K. Jerome · The opening of his essay on being in love.

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

Jerome K. Jerome · The source reads: “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.” · Three Men in a Boat (1889), ch. 15

Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life.

Jerome K. Jerome · The source reads: “Nothing, so it seems to me, is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life.” · The Stranger's line in his play about a lodger who changes a boarding house.

More Funny Quotes

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanac. July

Who is there that abstains from reading that which is printed in abuse of himself?

Anthony Trollope · Phineas Finn (1869), ch. 47

I hope I shall be pardoned if I do not confine myself entirely to the uncontroversial methods which I usually practise.

Winston Churchill · House of Commons, 4 December 1952

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“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.”

“Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. Also like the measles, we take it only once.”

“I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”

“Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life.”

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”

“Who is there that abstains from reading that which is printed in abuse of himself?”

“I hope I shall be pardoned if I do not confine myself entirely to the uncontroversial methods which I usually practise.”