Saint Jerome

"A fat paunch never breeds fine thoughts. "

"An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled. "

"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' "

"It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance. "

"Never look a gift horse in the mouth. "

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

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. "

"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. "

"The friendship that can cease has never been real. "

"The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end. "

"The scars of others should teach us caution. "

"To saints their very slumber is a prayer. "

"When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting. "