Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach?' - Saint Jerome
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. - Saint Jerome
It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. - 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, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be. - Saint Jerome
An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled. - Saint Jerome
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow. - Saint Jerome
A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts. - Saint Jerome
The scars of others should teach us caution. - 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