St. Jerome Quotes
It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.
Genes and family may determine the foundation of the house, but time and place determine its form.
Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.
i can become a new woman every day until i like the woman i become, then i can become her for a while, if not forever!
There's no secret to working with kids. They either charm you and you can work with them, or they don't charm you and you feel you're stuck with them.
We carry with us habits of thought and taste fostered in some nearly forgotten classroom by a certain teacher.
It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life - the priceless moments that will never come back to him again - being wasted in a mere brutish sleep.
Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the ability to tell lies easily and without blushing; but this is a mistake.
Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.
The advantage of literature over life is that its characters are clearly defined, and act consistently.
The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him.
I had learned that every patient has the right to hope, despite long odds, and it was my role to help nurture that hope.
the only perfect people are dead people, because their the only ones who can't make mistakes!
I deserved to find pleasure that surpassed my imagination, better than any I had experienced.
No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.
Splendid cheeses they were, ripe and mellow, and with a two hundred horse-power scent about them that might have been warranted to carry three miles, and knock a man over at two hundred yards.
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
Passion, like discriminating taste, grows on its use. You more likely act yourself into feeling than feel yourself into action.
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
It's one of those things when you are in a role you have to do what they ask you to do. If they want me to come in and stick it in, I have to come in and stick it in.
One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the best things in life.
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make you anxious not to hear the whole of it.
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
