Douglas William Jerrold quotes - Page : 2

" There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. " # Peace # War # Men

" Not peace at any price! Chains are worse than bayonets. " # Peace # Freedom # Price

" He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing, but a supply of toothpicks. " # Philanthropists # Voting # Imagination

" 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. " # Pleasure # Work # Enjoyment

" Religion is in the heart, not in the knees. " # Prayer # Love # Heart

" In this world truth can wait; she is used to it. " # Truth

" The sharp employ the sharp. " # Work

" Certainly it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and available land. The most constricting scarcities are those of character and personality. " # Character # America # Action

" That fellow would vulgarize the day of judgment. " # Vulgarity

" The life of the husbandman,—a life fed by the bounty of earth and sweetened by the airs of heaven. " # Farming and Farmers # World # Heaven