St. Jerome Quotes
It is well we cannot see into the future. There are few boys of fourteen who would not feel ashamed of themselves at forty.
1lb beefstak, with 1pt bitter beer every 6 hours. 1 ten-mile walk every morning. 1 bed at 11 sharp every night. And don't stuff your head with things you don't understand.
It is no more effort for a man to be a saint than to be a sinner; it becomes a mere matter of habit.
Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.
Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).
Five thousand people in one society might do something, but five thousand societies of one member each would be a holy trouble.
We shall never be content until each man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself.
A Spaniard will seek to persuade you that the bull-ring is an institution got up chiefly for the benefit of the bull.
There are the goods; if you want them, you can have them. If you do not want them, they would almost rather that you did not come and talk about them.
Swearing relieves the feelings - that is what swearing does. I explained this to my aunt on one occasion, but it didn't answer with her. She said I had no business to have such feelings.
"Not sure," he retorted; "you call yourself a journalist, and admit there is a subject under Heaven of which you are not sure!"
When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only a probation, and man was born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.
Love is too pure a light to burn long among the noisome gases that we breathe, but before it is choked out we may use it as a torch to ignite the cozy fire of affection.
It's really extraordinary what a variety of ways of loving there must be. We all do it as it was never done before.
We are but the veriest, sorriest slaves of our stomach. Reach not after morality and righteousness, my friends; watch vigilantly your stomach, and diet it with care and judgment.
When a man or woman loves to brood over a sorrow and takes care to keep it green in their memory, you may be sure it is no longer a pain to them.
I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet.
Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and listen to it, for it is the voice of God
All is vanity and everybody's vain. Women are terribly vain. So are men - more so, if possible.
It takes 3 girls to tow always; two to hold the rope, and the other one runs round and round, and giggles.
Weather in towns is like a skylark in a counting-house-out of place and in the way.
It is only the first baby that takes up the whole of a woman's time.Five or six do not require nearly so much attention as one.
Love is woman's business,and in "business" we all lay aside our natural weaknesses.
If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.
The proverbial Englishman, we know from old chronicler Froissart, takes his pleasures sadly, and the Englishwoman goes a step further and takes her pleasures in sadness itself.
As a writer, I challenge myself not to tell the same story - to tackle different characters with different issues.
Some people are just so happy to get published to, they sign anything. Next thing you know, they've signed over the rights to their book.
But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.
it takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!
What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on the facts - not the facts themselves.
To the Japanese, Portugal and Russia are neutral enemies, England and America are belligerent enemies, and Germany and her satellites are friendly enemies. They draw very fine distinctions.
Hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "think positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism, is rooted in unalloyed reality.
Hope, true hope, has proved as important as any medication I might prescribe or any procedure I might perform.
I feel that I have to do everything better just to be judged as okay. It is something I wish I could let go of. It's something that I wish just wasn't there.
It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms good singing is infinitely more than much talk and head-knowledge.
We are facing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing.
I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time.
When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.
