St. Jerome Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

Haste is of the Devil.

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

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

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

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

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.

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

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

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

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

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

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

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

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.