Douglas Jerrold

“My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her, like a banknote, for two twenties.”

“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.”

“Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.”

“Australia is so kind that, just tickle her with a hoe, and she laughs with a harvest.”

“Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.”