Famous Quotes / Saint Jerome
12 Quotations by Saint Jerome
- 1. A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.
- 2. An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ...
- 3. Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'W ...
- 4. It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
- 5. Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
- 6. No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
- 7. The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
- 8. The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, th ...
- 9. The friendship that can cease has never been real.
- 10. The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.
- 11. The scars of others should teach us caution.
- 12. When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.