All St. Jerome Quotes
- Quick enough, if good enough. Good
- An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained. Ethic
- No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by… Check
- Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth. Funny
- While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing. Always Bitter
- Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what… Belie
- That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go. Asked
- Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice. Beast
- Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids. Character
- Small minds can never handle great themes. Great
- The tired ox treads with a firmer step. Firmer
- Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts. All
- The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our… Bring
- Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets. Britain
- It is idle to play the lyre for an ass. Ass
- No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it. Arrow
- Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal. Changing
- True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks. Catholic
- A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept. Christianity
- The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. Awareness