Douglas William Jerrold Quotes

Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.

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

He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

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

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

Some people are so fond of bad luck they run half way to meet it.

The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.

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 to his body. Chains are worse than bayonets.