“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, book Three Men in a Boat

Source: Three Men in a Boat (1889), Ch. 3.

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends…" by Jerome K. Jerome?
Jerome K. Jerome photo
Jerome K. Jerome87
English humorist 1859–1927

Related quotes

“Because, you see, you only need one friend for a party. One is enough. Two is enough. Anything is enough.”

Ann M. Martin A Corner of the Universe

Source: A Corner of the Universe, ~pg 107; Adam on friendship

Chuck Palahniuk photo

“That if you could acquire enough, accomplish enough, you’d never want to own or do another thing. That if you could eat or sleep enough, you’d never need more. That if enough people loved you, you’d stop needing love.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Choke

Source: Choke

“To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.”

Diana Wynne Jones book Fire and Hemlock

Source: Fire and Hemlock (1985), p. 392.

Toni Morrison photo

“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can.”

Toni Morrison book Tar Baby

Tar Baby (1981)

Paulo Coelho photo

“She didn't need to understand the meaning of life; it was enough to find someone who did, and then fall asleep in his arms and sleep as a child sleeps, knowing that someone stronger than you is protecting you from all evil and all danger”

Paulo Coelho book Brida

Source: Brida

“It's one thing to think someone's stupid. And fair enough if you need them to be. But you can't go banking on it. That's a mug's game.”

Tim Winton (1960) Australian writer

Part III, Ch.5 - p.250
The Shepherd's Hut (2018)

William Kapell photo

“Music isn't enough. Performers aren't enough. There must be someone that loves music as much as life. For you, and remember this always, those of us with something urgent to say, we give everything.”

William Kapell (1922–1953) American classical pianist

Quoted by Claudia Cassidy, " In Memory of William Kapell, Who Left Us Richer in Music http://www.williamkapell.com/articles/cassidy.html", Chicago Tribune (October 30, 1953).

Deb Caletti photo

“You've got to have someone who loves your body. Who doesn't define you, but sees you. Who loves what he sees. Who you don't have to struggle to be good enough for.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: The Secret Life of Prince Charming

Bernie Sanders photo

“Enough is enough! […] How many homes can you own?”

Bernie Sanders (1941) American politician, senator for Vermont

Regarding Opposing Extending Bush-era tax rates, [Memoli, Michael, Sen. Bernie Sanders ends filibuster, http://articles.latimes.com/print/2010/dec/10/news/la-pn-sanders-filibuster-20101211, 10 December 2010, Los Angeles Times, 16 October 2013]
2010s

Related topics