Douglas William Jerrold

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

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon. ”

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

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. ”

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life. ”

We love peace, but not peace at any price. ”

There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body. ”

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

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