The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROME They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
ST. JEROME True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
ST. JEROME Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in t...
ST. JEROME Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied.
ST. JEROME Virginity can be lost by a thought.
ST. JEROME Haste is of the Devil.
ST. JEROME Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
ST. JEROME Prayer is a groan.
ST. JEROME Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
ST. JEROME The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
ST. JEROME Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
ST. JEROME Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive ...
ST. JEROME Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
ST. JEROME A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
ST. JEROME Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
ST. JEROME I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me o...
ST. JEROME I am that prodigal son who wasted all the portion entrusted to me by my father. But I have not yet f...
ST. JEROME My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the pr...
ST. JEROME A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
ST. JEROME The friendship that can cease has never been real.
ST. JEROME Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues grat...
ST. JEROME What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
ST. JEROME Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
ST. JEROME Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
ST. JEROME Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
ST. JEROME Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless.
ST. JEROME Quick enough, if good enough.
ST. JEROME Never look a gift horse in the mouth!
ST. JEROME When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting
ST. JEROME Hypocrite reader - my fellow - my brother!
ST. JEROME Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
ST. JEROME Continuing a short series on the Bible: A man who is well-grounded in the testimonies of the Scr...
ST. JEROME Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
ST. JEROME It is not enough for us to restrain from doing evil, unless we shall also do good.
ST. JEROME The friendship that can cease has never been real.
JEROME It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it....
JEROME K. JEROME It is always the best policy to speak the truth-- unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good ...
JEROME K JEROME Nothing is more beautiful than the love that has weathered the storms of life. The love of the young...
JEROME K. JEROME I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
JEROME K. JEROME It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It ...
JEROME K. JEROME It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. I...
JEROME K. JEROME It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being s...
JEROME K. JEROME It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
JEROME K. JEROME We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own be...
JEROME K. JEROME I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringin...
JEROME K. JEROME The shy man does have some slight revenge upon society for the torture it inflicts upon him. He is a...
JEROME K. JEROME I attribute the quarrelsome nature of the Middle Ages young men entirely to the want of the soothing...
JEROME K. JEROME The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.
JEROME K. JEROME Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the abili...
JEROME K. JEROME If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being ca...
JEROME K. JEROME Angels may be very excellent sort of folk in their own way, but we, poor mortals in our present stat...
JEROME K. JEROME I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there ...
JEROME K. JEROME If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being ca...
JEROME K. JEROME I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, ther...
JEROME K. JEROME It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch each other, and find sympathy. ....
JEROME K. JEROME Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in silence and lis...
JEROME K. JEROME Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.
JEROME K. JEROME If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being c...
JEROME K. JEROME It is always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good li...
JEROME K. JEROME They [dogs] never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up...
JEROME K. JEROME People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a ...
JEROME K. JEROME Conceit is the finest armour a man can wear.
JEROME K. JEROME But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came ...
JEROME K. JEROME What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
JEROME K. JEROME It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good lia...
JEROME K. JEROME It is impossible to enjoy idling unless there is plenty of work to do.
JEROME K. JEROME I like work; It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
JEROME K. JEROME I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea...
JEROME K. JEROME A cat's got her own opinion of human beings. She don't say much, but you can tell enough to make yo...
JEROME K. JEROME Think of the man who first tried German sausage.
JEROME K. JEROME I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the ...
JEROME K. JEROME It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good li...
JEROME K. JEROME The only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.
JEROME K. JEROME It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being imp...
JEROME K. JEROME Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.
JEROME K. JEROME I don't know why it should be, I am sure; but the sight of another man asleep in bed when I am up, m...
JEROME K. JEROME I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and wal...
JEROME K. JEROME I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years afte...
JEROME K. JEROME If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.
JEROME K. JEROME I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea...
JEROME K. JEROME Among all nations there should be vast temples raised where people might worship in Silence and list...
JEROME K. JEROME If you desire to drain to the dregs the fullest cup of scorn and hatred that a fellow human being ca...
JEROME K. JEROME A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no responsibility at the other
JEROME K. JEROME There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do.
JEROME K. JEROME Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.
JEROME K. JEROME One we discover how to appreciate the timeless values in our daily experiences, we can enjoy the bes...
JEROME K. JEROME Îmi place munca, mă fascinează. Sunt în stare să stau ceasuri întregi şi să privesc cum munc...
JEROME KLAPKA JEROME Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures,...
JEROME K. JEROME Love is like the measles, we all have to go through it.
JEROME K. JEROME Some people are under the impression that all that is required to make a good fisherman is the abili...
JEROME K. JEROME That's Harris all over - so ready to take the burden of everything himself, and put it on the backs ...
JEROME K. JEROME Affection will burn cheerily when the white flame of love is flickered out. Affection is a fire that...
JEROME K. JEROME Appearance, not reality, is what the clever dog grasps at in these clever days. We spurn the dull-br...
JEROME K. JEROME What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct and elevate. This book would...
JEROME K. JEROME There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas — something about the close, muggy atmosph...
JEROME K. JEROME If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.
JEROME K. JEROME We drink one another's health and spoil our own.
JEROME K. JEROME Occasionally the poster pictures a pair of cyclists; and then one grasps the fact how much superior ...
JEROME K. JEROME A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
JEROME K. JEROME It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the...
JEROME K. JEROME In the sunlight—in the daytime, when Nature is alive and busy all around us, we like the open hill...
JEROME K. JEROME (Speaking of the Cistercian monks) A grim fraternity, passing grim lives in that sweet spot, that Go...
JEROME K. JEROME He does love prophesying a misfortune, does the average British ghost. Send him out to prognosticate...
JEROME K. JEROME After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it ...
JEROME K. JEROME You can never rouse Harris. There is no poetry about Harris- no wild yearning for the unattainable. ...
JEROME K. JEROME Packing is one of those many things that I feel I know more about than any other person living. (It ...
JEROME K. JEROME Never look a gift horse in the mouth. [Lat., Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.]
SAINT JEROME Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not ...
JEROME WIESNER Telling others about oneself is...no simple matter. It depends on what we think they think we ought ...
JEROME BRUNER We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility o...
JEROME BRUNER The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
SAINT JEROME I throw a ball and get paid for it. Others do it by throwing the bull.
JEROME DEAN You are more likely to act yourself into feelings, than feel yourself into action.
JEROME BRUNER If you're going to make a musical, don't cartoon it from the play. Make it better than the p...
JEROME LAWRENCE A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychi...
JEROME LAWRENCE The only proper way to eliminate bad habits is to replace them with good ones.
JEROME HINES 'Empire of Self' is a loving portrait of a very difficult man. Jay Parini, himself a gifted ...
JEROME CHARYN Some readers may be disturbed that I wrote 'The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson' in Emily'...
JEROME CHARYN We are only now on the threshold of knowing the range of the educability of man-the perfectibility o...
JEROME BRUNNER A person who trusts no one can't be trusted.
JEROME BLATTNER What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way?
SAINT JEROME Quick enough, if good enough. [Lat., Sat cito, si sat bene.]
SAINT JEROME Haste is of the Devil.
SAINT JEROME An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The...
SAINT JEROME A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts.
SAINT JEROME It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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 The scars of others should teach us caution.
SAINT JEROME The friendship that can cease has never been real.
SAINT JEROME The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, th...
SAINT JEROME No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
SAINT JEROME Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'W...
SAINT JEROME The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs.
JEROME CADY That's a tough thing when you've got a team that's looking at you as a leader and you're a rookie. Y...
JEROME BETTIS One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and h...
JEROME BRUNER The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion - these are ...
JEROME BRUNER Actually, I've been a fanatical health nut for five years.
JEROME HINES We keep on saying 'Jack' and 'he,' but that's one of the great things about the ...
JEROME FLYNN It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.
JEROME CADY I think it's a great opportunity for Keith. Again, another kid with a hard-work ethic and tenacious ...
JEROME SOUERS It is not enough merely to memorize and spout vocal axioms: good singing is infinitely more than muc...
JEROME HINES I look forward to the day when a Mongolian idiot, treated bio-chemically, becomes a successful genet...
JEROME LEJEUNE I've never seen shy about eating. They don't call me 'The Bus' because I pass the plate.
JEROME BETTIS It's official, like the referee whistle.
JEROME BETTIS The Bus stops here. The last stop is here in Detroit.
JEROME BETTIS I'm a champion. I think the Bus' last stop is here in Detroit. It's official, like the referee whist...
JEROME BETTIS 'Suttree' is a fat one, a book with rude, startling power and a flood of talk. Much of it ta...
JEROME CHARYN Many of the writers I admire - Melville, Dickinson, Kafka - were virtually invisible during their li...
JEROME CHARYN Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves.
JEROME BRUNER It's been an incredible ride. I came back to win a championship. Mission accomplished, and with that...
JEROME BETTIS It's just great that we're able to win and give him another crack at that elusive Super Bowl ring.
JEROME BETTIS What I'd like to get across is try your best to be yourself. I realize there are those who are much ...
JEROME RICHARDSON A liberal is a conservative whose conscience is on display
JEROME GIOIA I'm willing to hold off completely on any kind of plan to clone a human, but I'm not willing to hold...
JEROME KASSIRER If you write a contract in Word and you have an application some place that keeps track of contract ...
JOHN JEROME Hey, look at this guy Kenny G. with his thing, walking up and down the aisles of the concert hall an...
JEROME RICHARDSON You can't have any indecision and say I'm on the closer. If you're going to be here, you've got to b...
JEROME BETTIS This is not a partisan problem at all, with hydrogen.
JEROME HINKLE You're missing someone who should be high on the list. Al Lopez knew pitching. He knew when a guy wa...
JEROME HOLTZMAN In the previous game [against the Dodgers on Aug. 29], I let everything get to me -- I let the umpir...
JEROME WILLIAMS Exactly. The ring is symbolic of each championship, so you get five diamonds because we have five ch...
JEROME BETTIS Denver's been underrated all year and so have we, and that makes for a really great game.
JEROME BETTIS This is a lull, not a recovery. In this sort of situation, a small bounce-back happens quite often. ...
JEROME BOOTH Bowling was my first love. Beating my mother for the first time when I was 13 or 14 was a major acco...
JEROME BETTIS I played this game to win a championship. I?m a champion and I think the last stop is here, in Detro...
JEROME BETTIS I feel great, I feel fresh. And officially, I am back.
JEROME BETTIS We don't have to be as good as we were last year, ... It doesn't matter if we're 15-1 again - if we'...
JEROME BETTIS In the Buffalo game, Willie had one long run,
JEROME BETTIS In my book (he has), but guess what? My book don't mean much, ... I don't know. That's why you have ...
JEROME BETTIS I'm happy for them, ... They got a chance to get one, that's the goal. I'm not bitter or anything li...
JEROME BETTIS But that's nothing new. We're going to be a running team whether it's Ben or Tommy or Charlie at qua...
JEROME BETTIS If a person is an economic being and figures out the odds, then there is a very high incentive to ch...
JEROME KURTZ If you came and you found a strange man... teaching your kids to punch each other, or trying to sell...
JEROME SINGER It's the same type of town that Pittsburgh is, Midwest, blue-collar. And we've had some wins recentl...
JEROME BETTIS Because of a lack of funding, officers trained in SWAT are also trained in canine and how to deal wi...
JEROME JACKSON No matter what techniques and what disciplines you go through, I think there is one factor more inta...
JEROME HINES The motivation part is all essential in keeping my voice, but there are the human factors of discipl...
JEROME HINES I've heard pileated woodpeckers make that kind of sound; I've heard crows make that kind of sound in...
JEROME JACKSON We are f acing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singi...
JEROME HINES I don't like that he got a hit off me, ... I told him when I was at Fresno, 'Just keep pitching like...
JEROME WILLIAMS I believe in monstrosities, and 'I Am Abraham' is a monstrosity of sorts, raveling out momen...
JEROME CHARYN There was no rhythm to our passing game early. We had some passes that weren't caught and we had som...
JEROME SOUERS This seems to be a case of local officials who have blatantly abused their legal powers, and have no...
JEROME COHEN I often played nice guys when I was younger, and it's nice to be able to explore the darker side...
JEROME FLYNN That is playing into the hands of New Zealand teams, if you run upright into the contact situations ...
JEROME PAARWATER I was the youngest guy in the union. At 14! A pianist around there who became my mentor for a little...
JEROME RICHARDSON Detroit, you were incredible. Pittsburgh, here we come. I played this game to win a championship. I'...
JEROME BETTIS Hopes have been dashed. The market had taken off very quickly. This has cooled investors' sentiment.
JEROME FORNERIS We were all novices. We really were. We didn't know a goddamn thing about doing a show.
JEROME ROBBINS I told you to sell it, not give it away.
JEROME ROBBINS This feels great. It makes everything that I've ever had to go through worthwhile. I've always wishe...
JEROME BETTIS It makes it all worthwhile. It makes everything we had to go through as a team and everything I had ...
JEROME BETTIS It makes everything worthwhile that I've ever had to go through, everything I've done. You know, 13 ...
JEROME BETTIS When I came to the Met, Robert Merrill and Leonard Warren sounded more like basses than most of the ...
JEROME HINES Every payoff is a payoff in the end.
JEROME JENKINS This makes everything worthwhile. It makes everything we, as a team, had to go through and personall...
JEROME BETTIS