Jerome K. Jerome

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

“I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.”

“We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.”

“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.”

“Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.”

“It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.”