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Quotes By St. Jerome

They talk like angels but they live like men.

St. Jerome
MenAngels Talk

Action without a name, a ‘who’ attached to it, is meaningless.

St. Jerome
Action Attached Name

What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.

St. Jerome
GoodBrain Speed

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

St. Jerome
Hour Improve Moment

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

St. Jerome
BeautyAdorned

Haste is of the Devil.

St. Jerome
Devil Haste

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

St. Jerome
Fat Fine Thoughts

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

St. Jerome
Lost Virginity

Why do you not practice what you preach.

St. Jerome
Practice Preach

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

St. Jerome
WarDead Gone

Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.

St. Jerome
WorkDevil Employed

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

St. Jerome
LifeBook Heart

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

St. Jerome
FriendshipCease

Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.

St. Jerome
LoveAffection Price

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.

St. Jerome
Act Action Law
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