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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with S >> Quotes By Saint Jerome |
| Quote #1: | "To saints their very slumber is a prayer." |
| Quote #2: | "When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting." |
| Quote #3: | "The friendship that can cease has never been real." |
| Quote #4: | "An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled." |
| Quote #5: | "A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts." |
| Quote #6: | "The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart." |
| Quote #7: | "Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach'" |
| Quote #8: | "The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be." |
| Quote #9: | "No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow." |
| Quote #10: | "The scars of others should teach us caution." |
| Quote #11: | "It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance." |
| Quote #12: | "Never look a gift horse in the mouth." |
| Quote #13: | "The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end." |
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