Quotes and Quotations

Memorable Quotes and quotations from Saint Jerome

Saint Jerome church father & saint (374 AD - 419 AD)


Saint Jerome - Letter
- When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

Saint Jerome - Letter 48
- The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

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- The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.

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- No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

Saint Jerome - Letter
- An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.

Saint Jerome - Letter
- The friendship that can cease has never been real.

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- The scars of others should teach us caution.

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- A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.

Saint Jerome - On the Epistle to the Ephesians
- Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

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- It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

Saint Jerome - Letter
- The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.