Quote

Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.

St. Jerome

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

St. Jerome
Anchorite
Apologist
Bible Translator
Biblical Scholar
Historian
Poet
Priest
Saint
Theologian
Translator
Writer
Madras
Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus
Saint Jerome
St. Jerome
Hieronymus
Saint Heronimos
Saint Hieronymus
Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus
Eusebius Hieronymus
Moving
Grease
Power
Flattery
Wheels
Motive
Moves
Vanity
Truly
Humanity

More quotes by St. Jerome

Image
That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.
St. Jerome
Image
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
St. Jerome
Image
My speech is too fast my oration confused love knows no order.
St. Jerome
Image
What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
St. Jerome
Image
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
St. Jerome
Image
Woman is the root of all evil.
St. Jerome
Image
While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
St. Jerome
Image
For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
St. Jerome
Image
Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
St. Jerome
Image
The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
St. Jerome
Image
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
St. Jerome
Image
The tired ox treads with a firmer step.
St. Jerome
Image
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
St. Jerome
Image
Shun, as you would the plague, a cleric who from being poor has become wealthy, or who, from being nobody has become a celebrity.
St. Jerome
Image
To perceive is to categorize, to conceptualize is to categorize, to learn is to form categories, to make decisions is to categorize.
St. Jerome
Image
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven
St. Jerome
Image
No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
St. Jerome
Image
Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
St. Jerome
Image
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
St. Jerome
Image
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
St. Jerome