St. Jerome Quotes

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

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