Quote #9

While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

More from St. Jerome

  1. Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.
  2. The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.
  3. It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.
  4. 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?'
  5. If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
  6. No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the sender of it.
  7. No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
  8. That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.

All St. Jerome quotes