How beautiful can time with goodness make an old man look.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Age
Earth is here so kind, that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Gardening, Gardens
A strange volume of real life in the daily packet of the postman. Eternal love and instant payment.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Letters
It takes all sorts of people to make a world.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: World
He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing, but a supply of toothpicks.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Charity
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Nations, Nation, Nationality, Nationalism
A duellist is only a Cain in high life.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Love’s like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Love
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon, out of respect for that “ancient institution,” the old one.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Honest bread is very well, it’s butter that makes the temptation.
—Douglas William Jerrold
The superior man is he who develops in harmonious proportions, his moral, intellectual, and physical nature. This should be the end at which men of all classes should aim, and it is this only which constitutes real greatness.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Intelligence, Man
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it’s ten to one if they hang long together.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Fortune
There is a sanctity in suffering when meekly born. Our duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff, supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet’s rod, it changes to a snake.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Trials
The sharp employ the sharp.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Work
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one. It flies as well as creeps.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Slander
It is wonderful how near conceit is to insanity!
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Conceit
The character that needs law to mend it, is hardly worth the tinkering.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Character
Habitual intoxication is the epitome of every crime.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Drunkenness
In the intercourse of the world people should not take words as so much genuine coin of standard metal, but merely as counters that people play with.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Language
I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Treason is like diamonds; there is nothing to be made by the small trader.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Revolution
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn’t make it.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Lawyers, Defense
In all of the wedding cake, hope is the sweetest of plums.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Marriage
Religion is in the heart, not in the knees.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Prayer
Never have a friend that’s poorer than yourself.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Friendship
What would women do if they could not cry?—What poor, defenceless creatures they would be.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Tears
Many a man who now lacks shoe-leather would wear golden spurs if knighthood were the reward of worth.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Worth
A coquette is like a recruiting sergeant, always on the lookout for fresh victims.
—Douglas William Jerrold
We love peace, but not peace at any price.—There is a peace more destructive of the manhood of living man, than war is destructive of his body.—Chains are worse than bayonets.
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Peace
It is amazing at how small a price may the wedding ring be placed upon a worthless hand; but, by the beauty of our law, what heaps of gold are indispensable to take it off!
—Douglas William Jerrold
Topics: Weddings, Marriage
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