Skip to content

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the Universe.

— Jerome K. Jerome Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)

Another quote →

Topics

Work

More quotes by Jerome K. Jerome

I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing weed.

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)

Women strangely hug the knife that stabs them.

Three Men in a Boat (1889)

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand.

There are the goods; if you want them, you can have them. If you do not want them, they would almost rather that you did not come and talk about them.

Three Men on the Bummel (1900)

All Jerome K. Jerome quotes →

You may also like

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

James Howell English Proverbs (1659)

When we see a great man desiring power instead of his real goal we soon recognize that he is sick, or more precisely that his attitude to his work is sick.

Martin Buber What is Man? (1938)

The fact is the sweetest dream that labor knows.

Robert Frost A Boy's Will (1913)

In a society such as ours, it is almost impossible for a person to be responsible.

Jacques Ellul The Betrayal by Technology (1993)

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Jerome K. Jerome (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.