Top 140 Quotes & Sayings by St. Jerome - Page 3

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a saint St. Jerome.

Last updated on April 16, 2025.

Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.

St. Jerome

Small minds can never handle great themes.

St. Jerome

What cannot be changed cannot be blamed.

St. Jerome

My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.

St. Jerome

That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.

St. Jerome

It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.

St. Jerome

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

St. Jerome

Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.

St. Jerome

An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.

St. Jerome

It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.

St. Jerome

It is idle to play the lyre for an ass.

St. Jerome

The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.

St. Jerome

Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged.

St. Jerome

The laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another.

St. Jerome

[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.

St. Jerome

Even brute beasts and wandering birds do not fall into the same traps or nets twice.

St. Jerome

It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.

St. Jerome

Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.

St. Jerome

Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.

St. Jerome

Quick enough, if good enough.

St. Jerome

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