I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.Narrator
We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment.Narrator
Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.Jerome K. Jerome
You don't know the meaning of the word 'strange', George. You have not been brought up in Colebrook.Harris
I never saw a man do it, at any rate, and it seems hardly possible.George
I wonder what they call you when you're not there?J
They don't make such a fool of themselves about it as those Kingham fellows.Harris
It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do.George
Let the boats slide, boys! We are on a strong stream, and can drift down it honourably.Narrator
If ever you have an evening to spare, up the river with Stivvings! That's my advice.J
I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.Narrator
Montmorency's ambition in life is to get in the way and be sworn at.J
You never saw such a thing as potato-scraping for getting a laugh.George
If you want rest and change, you won't find it with Harris.J
There are only two ways of getting out of a hammock. One is to be taken out by friends and the other is to stay there for ever.Narrator