Douglas William Jerrold Quotes

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

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

Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

Self-defense is the clearest of all laws; and for this reason - the lawyers didn't make it.

Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets.

Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.

The sharp employ the sharp.

Even the worse of jobs has their pleasures, if I were a grave digger or a hangmen, there are some people I could work for with a great deal of enjoyment.

Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.