English - Dramatist | January 3, 1803 - June 8, 1857
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.
Douglas William Jerrold
PassionRainManDuckOverShower
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.
HappinessStrangersOwnGardensOur
The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
HeartWomanAimWayTakeHit
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.
LifeLoveLateWorseLikeMeasles
There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.
PeaceManWarBodyLivingMore
Some people are so fond of ill luck that they run halfway to meet it.
PeopleLuckMeetRunSome People
A conservative is a man who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that 'ancient institution' the old one.
RespectManMoonLookNewWill
Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
HeartReligionKnees
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
SportsOnlyAthleticEverMastered
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together.
TimeTogetherLongHangNo TimeTen
Marriage is like wine. It is not be properly judged until the second glass.
MarriageWineGlassLikeSecond
The best thing I know between France and England is the sea.
SeaBestKnowFranceBetweenThing
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