Quote #16
Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.
More from St. Jerome
- Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.
- The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
- It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
- The scars of others should teach us caution.
- That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.
- When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
- No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it.
- Small minds can never handle great themes.