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Fex urbis, lex orbis" (The dregs of the city, the law of the earth), from Les Miserables, attributed to St. Jerome
— Victor Hugo
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
— St. Jerome
Why do you not practice what you preach.
— St. Jerome
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
— St. Jerome
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
— St. Jerome
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
— St. Jerome
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
— St. Jerome
Virginity can be lost by a thought.
— St. Jerome
The scars of others should teach us caution.
— St. Jerome
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
— St. Jerome
Quick enough, if good enough.
— St. Jerome
He is rich enough who does not want bread.
— St. Jerome
To saints their very slumber is a prayer.
— St. Jerome
Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.
— St. Jerome
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.
— St. Jerome
Playing keys is more than just knowing what notes to play. You have to know about the buttons too.
— St. Jerome
That clergyman soon becomes an object of contempt who being often asked out to dinner never refuses to go.
— St. Jerome
It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.
— St. Jerome
Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.
— St. Jerome
Small minds can never handle great themes.
— St. Jerome
We must love Christ and always seek Christ's embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.
— St. Jerome
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
— St. Jerome
The laws of Caesar are one thing, those of Christ, another. Papinianus judges one way, our Paul another.
— St. Jerome
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
— 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
They talk like angels but they live like men.
— St. Jerome
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
— St. Jerome
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
— St. Jerome
To read without writing is to sleep.
— St. Jerome
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
— St. Jerome
Haste is of the Devil.
— St. Jerome
What cannot be changed cannot be blamed.
— St. Jerome
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
— St. Jerome
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
— St. Jerome
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
— St. Jerome
Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.
— St. Jerome
Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
— St. Jerome
That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.
— St. Jerome
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
— St. Jerome
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
— St. Jerome
Begin now what you will be hereafter.
— St. Jerome
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
— St. Jerome
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
— St. Jerome
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
— St. Jerome
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[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.
— St. Jerome
Love knows nothing of order.
— St. Jerome
To ignore Scripture is to ignore Christ.
— St. Jerome