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Jerome K. Jerome quotes about thinking

English Author, Writer May 2, 1859 – June 14, 1927

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It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions. After eggs and bacon it says, "Work!" After beefsteak and porter, it says, "Sleep!" After a cup of tea (two spoonfuls for each cup, and don't let it stand for more than three minutes), it says to the brain, "Now rise, and show your strength. Be eloquent, and deep, and tender; see, with a clear eye, into... Jerome K. Jerome
To tell you the truth - mind, this is strictly between ourselves, please; I shouldn't like your wife to know I said it - the women folk don't understand these things; but between you and me, you know, I think it does a man good to swear. Jerome K. Jerome
I also think pronunciation of a foreign tongue could be better taught than by demanding from the pupil those internal acrobatic feats that are generally impossible and always useless. This is the sort of instruction one recieves: 'Press your tonsils against the underside of your larynx. Then with the convex part of the septum curved upwards so as almostbut not quiteto touch the uvula try with the tip of your tongue to reach your thyroid. Take a deep breath and compress your glottis. Now... Jerome K. Jerome
If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do... Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome K. Jerome quote: "The more the other party thinks he's having his way, the..."
The more the other party thinks he's having his way, the easier always to get your own. Jerome K. Jerome
I often arrive at quite sensible ideas and judgements, on the spur of the moment. It is when I stop to think that I become foolish. Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome K. Jerome quote: "We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of..."
We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without. Jerome K. Jerome

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