Jerome Quotes

You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.

The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs.

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.

Too much of anything is a mistake, as the man said when his wife presented him with four new healthy children in one day. We should practice moderation in all matters.

I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, maddens me.

Man, if he would live, must worship. He looks around, and what to him, within the vision of his life, is the greatest and the best, that he falls down and does reverence to.

Cheese, like oil, makes too much of itself.

Think of the man who first tried German sausage.

when you're honest with yourself, often times you betray someone else!

Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.

If you're craving oatmeal cookies, apple sauce won't do.

We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior mental states on later ones.

We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility of man. We have never addressed ourselves to this problem before.

Must I remind you that a chain is no stronger than its weakest link?

I apologize if anybody was offended by anything I said.

Howard Phillips of the Constitution Party asked me to consider seriously running for president in 2008 and I am doing so.

Only a very foolish lawyer will dare guess the outcome of a jury trial.

Increasingly constructive doubt is the sign of advancing civilization.

Even when there is no longer hope for the body, there is always hope for the soul.

On average, physicians interrupt patients within eighteen seconds of when they begin telling their story.

The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipline.

Actually, Ive been a fanatical health nut for five years.

Losing is the great American sin.

Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.

While it was a very interesting period in my life, I was happy to get back to more direct contact with students in the classroom and in my research projects.

I don't have the first clue who he is talking about, because all I worry about is Jerome.

I'm always trying to make people happy, that's really my theme on Vine. I always say I love life like crazy and I want people to love life like crazy too.

I only know one thing: Everything I learned about the banking business, I learned in the banking towers of the Societe.

I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.

An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral. And the advance of man's knowledge is more of a miracle than any sticks turned to snakes, or the parting of waters!

In no instance is there to be a musical or opera of Inherit the Wind because it doesn't sing. It's an intellectual play.

If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the play. Have a reason for making it sing.

You got to play the flute as a flute, like that. You can't play like a tenor concept on soprano; it sounds wrong. But some guys do it, and they think it's O.K., but not so!

Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers.

It is no longer a question of controlling a military-industrial complex, but rather, of keeping the United States from becoming a totally military culture.

The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.

Matrimony is always a vice, all that can be done is to excuse it and sanctify it; therefore it was made a religious sacrament.

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.

Sometimes the character of the mistress is inferred from the dress of her maids.

Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.

What cannot be changed cannot be blamed.

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

Everything must have in it a sharp seasoning of truth.

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

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

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

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

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

It is easier to mend neglect than to quicken love.