30 St. Jerome Quotes

St. Jerome's selections present solemn, thoughtful reflections on friendship and communication, inviting anyone seeking quiet, philosophical insight.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
#1
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
#2
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
#3
It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.
#4
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
#5
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
#6
It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.
#7
Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.
#8
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
#9
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.
#10
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?'
#11
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it.
#12
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.
#13
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
#14
Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.
#15
Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.
#16
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
#17
The scars of others should teach us caution.
#18
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
#19
Small minds can never handle great themes.
#20
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
#21
Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once woll has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
#22
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
#23
Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.
#24
For they wished to fill the winepress of eloquence not with the tendrils of mere words but with the rich grape juice of good sense.
#25
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
#26
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 eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.
#27
Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.
#28
Privilegia paucorum non faciunt legem.
#29
Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.
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St. Jerome quotes