# Jizzle

- Author: [John Wyndham](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham.md)
- Quotes: 10
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/jizzle

## Quotes

> "I guess——" she said, wistfully—"I guess the only thing that's wrong with children is that they grow up to be people like you."

p. 40 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/jizzle/i-guess-she.md)

> Sooner or later the amateur always overreaches himself.

p. 8 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/jizzle/sooner-or-later.md)

> "I suppose one could scarcely have had innocence and experience. Being young is very exhausting and unsatisfactory, really—although it looks so nice."

p. 84 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/jizzle/i-suppose-one.md)

> It was so absurd to die at sixty, anyway, and, as he saw it, it would be even more wasteful to die at eighty. A scheme of things in which the wisdom acquired in living was simply scrapped in this way was, to say the least, grossly inefficient. What did it mean? That somebody else would have to go through the process of learning all that life had already taken sixty years to teach him; and then be similarly scrapped in the end. No wonder the race was slow in getting anywhere—if, indeed, it were getting anywhere—with this cat-and-mouse, ten-forward-and-nine-back system.

p. 18 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/jizzle/it-was-so-absurd.md)

> “Lady,” he said, “some place there’s several freight cars of trouble marked 'Rush', and they’re all headed your way.”

p. 38 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/jizzle/lady-he-said.md)

> And there was another thing, too. No matter what your business is, some gals ain't got no standard of affection except how much you neglect it for 'em. Seems they just got to back themselves against it—and they got it all nicely fixed so they win both ways. If you don't neglect it, you ain't lovin' them enough; if you do, they reckoned you were that kind of sap, anyway.

p. 67 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/jizzle/and-there-was.md)

> Hobbies are convenient in the child, but irritant in the adult; which is why women are careful never to have them, but simply to be interested in this and that.

p. 181 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/jizzle/hobbies-are-convenient.md)

> "Other things than to fight, there is, even for dragons."

p. 60 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/jizzle/other-things-than.md)

> In the profession of wifehood the exams begin at the church door—and there is never a final degree.

p. 145 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/jizzle/in-the-profession.md)

> "No discovery is good or evil until men make it that way."

p. 141 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-wyndham/jizzle/no-discovery-is-good.md)