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St. Jerome

23 Quotes by St. Jerome

  1. 1.

    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

  2. 2.

    Why do you not practice what you preach.

    St. Jerome

  3. 3.

    A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

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  4. 4.

    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.

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  5. 5.

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

    St. Jerome

  6. 6.

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

    St. Jerome

  7. 7.

    Haste is of the Devil.

    St. Jerome

  8. 8.

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

    St. Jerome

  9. 9.

    The friendship that can cease has never been real.

    St. Jerome

  10. 10.

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

    St. Jerome

  11. 11.

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

    St. Jerome

  12. 12.

    True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

    St. Jerome

  13. 13.

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

    St. Jerome

  14. 14.

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

    St. Jerome

  15. 15.

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

    St. Jerome

  16. 16.

    They talk like angels but they live like men.

    St. Jerome

  17. 17.

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

    St. Jerome

  18. 18.

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

    St. Jerome

  19. 19.

    The scars of others should teach us caution.

    St. Jerome

  20. 20.

    Virginity can be lost by a thought.

    St. Jerome

  21. 21.

    Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

    St. Jerome

  22. 22.

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

    St. Jerome

  23. 23.

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

    St. Jerome