St. Jerome Quotes

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

St. Jerome



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

St. Jerome



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

St. Jerome



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

St. Jerome



Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.

St. Jerome



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

St. Jerome



Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

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.

St. Jerome



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

St. Jerome



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

St. Jerome



Haste is of the Devil.

St. Jerome



Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

St. Jerome



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.

St. Jerome



Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

St. Jerome



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

St. Jerome



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

St. Jerome



The friendship that can cease has never been real.

St. Jerome



The scars of others should teach us caution.

St. Jerome



They talk like angels but they live like men.

St. Jerome



True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

St. Jerome