St. Jerome Quotes

"True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks."
- St. Jerome
(Related: Friendship)

"They talk like angels but they live like men."
- St. Jerome
(Related: Men, Angels, Talk)

"The scars of others should teach us caution."
- St. Jerome
(Related: Caution)

"The friendship that can cease has never been real."
- St. Jerome
(Related: Friendship)

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart."
- St. Jerome
(Related: Heart, Eyes, Mind, Secrets)

"Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night."
- St. Jerome
(Related: Marriage, Night, Sleep)

"Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price."
- St. Jerome
(Related: Love, Affection)

"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
(Related: Life, Daughter, Heart, First, Holiness)

"Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed."
- St. Jerome
(Related: Work, Devil, May)

"Haste is of the Devil."
- St. Jerome
(Related: Devil, Haste)

"Why do you not practice what you preach."
- St. Jerome
(Related: Practice)

"What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way."
- St. Jerome

"Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied."
- St. Jerome
(Related: Devil, May)

"Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you."
- St. Jerome
(Related: Peace, Soul, Earth, Heaven, Will)

"Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless."
- St. Jerome
(Related: Action, Name)

"Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law."
- St. Jerome
(Related: Action, Law, Maxim, Will)

"A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept."
- St. Jerome
(Related: Friend, Difficulty)

"A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts."
- St. Jerome
(Related: Thoughts)

"Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most."
- St. Jerome
(Related: Beauty)

"Virginity can be lost by a thought."
- St. Jerome
(Related: Thought, Virginity)

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best."
- St. Jerome
(Related: Rest)

"Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!"
- St. Jerome