Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
ST. JEROMEI praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
More St. Jerome Quotes
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Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
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Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.
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Woman is the root of all evil.
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A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
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Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.
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Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
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Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
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So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.
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Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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It is our part to seek, His to grant what we ask; ours to make a beginning, His to bring it to completion; ours to offer what we can, His to finish what we cannot.
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No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
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They please the world most, who please Christ least.
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While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.
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Do not let your deeds believe your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, “Why do you not practice what you preach?
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Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!
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There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
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I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
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Love knows nothing of order.
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Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
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It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.
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For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
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Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
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Haste is of the Devil.
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For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
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