St. Jerome Quotes

We're all living contradictions, trying to survive in a world filled with hypocrites

To saints their very slumber is a prayer.

I look forward to the day when a mongolian idiot, treated biochemically, becomes a successful geneticist.

love is a mental illness, an obsessive-compulsive disorder romanticized!

Is it possible to be overzealous, to destroy that which you hope to save-so that nothing is left but emptiness.

The man who has everything figured out is probably a fool.

Fox-terriers are born with about four times as much original sin in them as other dogs.

There is no more thrilling sensation I know of than sailing. It comes as near to flying as man has got to yet - except in dreams.

Athletes as a rule are stronger than their backers; yet the weaker presses the stronger to put forth all his efforts.

It was probably the biggest accomplishment of my life.

You want bold? Ask the hundreds of defensive backs I ran over during my career if they think I'm bold.

I respect the truth too much to drag it out on every occasion.

Even the righteous man is just a sinner living in between sins.

Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.

I could not conjure up one melancholy fancy upon a mutton chop and a glass of champagne.

changing horses doesn't mean the ride'll get any better!

I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.

Fame is fleeting, and you can't get caught up in it. Signing autographs, taking pictures, and being nice to people is a small price to pay for the upside that comes with this.

The alleviation of human error, whether design or intrinsically human, continues to be the most important problem facing aerospace safety.

False hope can lead to intemperate choices and flawed decision making. True hope takes into account the real threats that exist and seeks to navigate the best path around them.

Neither Britain, a land fertile in tyrants, nor the people of Ireland, knew Moses and the prophets.

Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.

The odour of Burgundy, and the smell of French sauces, and the sight of clean napkins and long loaves, knocked as a very welcome visitor at the door of our inner man.

A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.

While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

Only God truly forgives, man sometimes forgives, nature never forgives.

Each individual has a very neat beginning, at conception.

It is very strange, this domination of our intellect by our digestive organs. We cannot work, we cannot think, unless our stomach wills so. It dictates to us our emotions, our passions.

[It] is no longer a matter of taste or opinion...it is plain experimental evidence.

Playing keys is more than just knowing what notes to play. You have to know about the buttons too.

They talk like angels but they live like men.

I write out of instinct.

Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it.

We see what we want to see. We idealize each other with our own fantasies.

There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one.

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such. A poor man is despised the whole world over.

Agency presupposes choice.

We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.

Happy is the person who cherishes the precious lessons of the past and lives vigorously in the present.

No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.

Idling has always been my strong point.

There may be a better land where bicycle saddles are made of rainbow, stuffed with cloud; in this world the simplest thing is to get used to something hard.

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.