Saint Jerome Quotes

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

"Virginity can be lost by a thought."
-Saint Jerome

"A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts."
-Saint Jerome

"An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled."
-Saint Jerome

"Never look a gift horse in the mouth."
-Saint Jerome

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart."
-Saint Jerome in Secrets quotes.

"Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best."
-Saint Jerome

"The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end."
-Saint Jerome

"When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting."
-Saint Jerome

"A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept."
-Saint Jerome

"The friendship that can cease has never been real."
-Saint Jerome in Friendship quotes.

"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 you preach?'"
-Saint Jerome

"Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price."
-Saint Jerome in Love quotes.

"The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be."
-Saint Jerome

"The scars of others should teach us caution."
-Saint Jerome

"Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night."
-Saint Jerome in Marriage quotes.