Quotes by St. Jerome

• Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
• True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
• They talk like angels but they live like men.
• The scars of others should teach us caution.
• The friendship that can cease has never been real.
• The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
• Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
• Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
• Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
• Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
• Haste is of the Devil.
• Why do you not practice what you preach.
• What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
• Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
• Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
• Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless.
• Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
• A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
• A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
• Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
• Virginity can be lost by a thought.
• Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
• Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!