Famous Quotes / St. Jerome
13 Quotations by St. Jerome
- 1. A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
- 2. A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
- 3. Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
- 4. Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
- 5. Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool as been dyed purple, who can r ...
- 6. For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
- 7. It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
- 8. Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
- 9. Prayer is a groan.
- 10. Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
- 11. The friendship that can cease has never been real.
- 12. True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
- 13. When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.