FastSaying
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.
Saint Jerome
Related Quotes
Never look a gift horse in the mouth. [Lat., Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.]
— Saint Jerome
Gifts
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
— Saint Jerome
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
— Saint Jerome
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.
— Saint Jerome
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
— Saint Jerome
