Quotes by St. Jerome

“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Til your good is better and your better is best.”

“Virginity can be lost by a thought.”

“Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.”

“When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting”

“Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half”

“The only rose without a thorn is friendship.”

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

“Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.”

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

“Quick enough, if good enough.”

“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.”

“Never look a gift horse in the mouth!”

“Having experienced the vexation of marriage, why should she be like the dog who returns to his own vomit,”

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

You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary.

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.

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

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Til your good is better and your better is best.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way.