22 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.
- 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!
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