Quotes By St. Jerome

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

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.

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.

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.

Haste is of the Devil.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

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.

Why do you not practice what you preach.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

The scars of others should teach us caution.