Quote #24
Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.
More from St. Jerome
- The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
- 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.
- Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once woll has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?
- It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
- Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
- 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 el…
- Small minds can never handle great themes.
- Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.