Mortimer Jerome Adler

Famous quotes containing the words mortimer, jerome and/or adler:

    The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.
    —John Mortimer (b. 1923)

    I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.
    Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927)

    What it comes down to is this: the grocer, the butcher, the baker, the merchant, the landlord, the druggist, the liquor dealer, the policeman, the doctor, the city father and the politician—these are the people who make money out of prostitution, these are the real reapers of the wages of sin.
    —Polly Adler (1900–1962)