Douglas William Jerrold Quotes
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Talk to him of Jacob's ladder, and he would ask the number of the steps.
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Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
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A blessed companion is a book,-a book that fitly chosen is a life-long friend.
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He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
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In this world truth can wait; she is used to it.
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Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.
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He was so good he would pour rose-water on a toad.
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Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
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As for the brandy, 'nothing extenuate;' and the water, put nought in it malice.
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That fellow would vulgarize the day of judgment.
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The sharp employ the sharp.
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That questionable superfluity-small beer.
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Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
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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.
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There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
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The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.
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Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
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He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
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The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
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God said, 'Let us make man in our image.' Man said, 'Let us make God in our image.'
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Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
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Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
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We love peace, but not peace at any price.
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The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.