St. Jerome Quotes

Early impressions are hard to eradicate from the mind. When once wool has been dyed purple, who can restore it to its previous whiteness?

It is a wise man who knows where courage ends and stupidity begins.

She’s a smart woman. I love that. Intelligence is a wonderful and powerful aphrodisiac. To me, it enhances beauty, makes an ordinary woman look like a movie star.

I'm disappointed in you Tom Brady

It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.

The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.

Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them.

To describe the agony of a marathon to someone who's never run it is like trying to explain color to someone who was born blind.

Give me something to dance about and I'll dance it.

early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable!

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.

Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between one’s experiences.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.

A good woman's arms round a man's neck is a lifebelt thrown out to him from heaven.

Begin now what you will be hereafter.

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay there, a score you can read.

And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

a full moon is a flashlight so everyone can see your drama!

The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.

They please the world most, who please Christ least.

When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

Musical numbers should carry the action of the play and should be representative of the personalities of the characters who sing them.

Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one's life

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

Its impossible to explain creativity. It's like asking a bird, 'How do you fly?' You just do.

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?

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

The charges we bring against others often come home to ourselves; we inveigh against faults which are as much ours as theirs; and so our eloquence ends by telling against ourselves.

The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like.

If there is one person I do despise more than another, it is the man who does not think exactly the same on all topics as I do.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

Knowledge is justified belief.

Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

intelligence is always intimidating to those who aren't!

No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.

wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation!

Cartoonist Walt Disney has made the twentieth century's only important contribution to music. Disney has made use of music as language.

Risk management is a more realistic term than safety. It implies that hazards are ever-present, that they must be identified, analyzed, evaluated and controlled or rationally accepted.

Go on being uncommercial. There's a lot of money in it.

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

Love knows nothing of order.