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Quotes About Jerome

Reply to Objection 1: Jerome is speaking according to the teaching of the Greek Fathers; all of whom hold the creation of the angels to have taken place previously to that of the corporeal world.
~ Thomas Aquinas
No," said Harris, "if you want rest and change, you can't beat a sea trip." Three Men in a Boat Jerome K. Jerome
~ Connie Willis
Though he was not as dastardly as Esmé or Count Olaf or the hook-handed man, Jerome was still an ersatz guardian, because a real guardian is supposed to provide a home, with a place to sleep and something to wear, and all Jerome had given them in the end was "Good luck." Jerome reached the end of the block and turned left, and the Baudelaires were once again alone in the world.
~ Lemony Snicket
Stop!" Jerome Squalor pleaded. "In the name of injustice!
~ Lemony Snicket
Don't be absurd!" Jerome said. "Ruthless kidnapping villains aren't in!
~ Lemony Snicket
The Alzheimer's Association in the United States, founded by Jerome Stone, they found me because they had heard rumours that my mom was diagnosed. Jerry said, 'We're a small family group, and we would like to know if you'd like to join us and to spread the word about this disease.' I said, 'Absolutely.'
~ Yasmin Aga Khan
Though many intellectuals, following in the footsteps of Saints Augustine and Jerome, hold business people in contempt for their selfishness and greed, in fact a free market puts a premium on empathy.
~ Steven Pinker
The battering-ram of natural affection which so often shatters faith must recoil powerless from the wall of the Gospel.
~ Jerome
Nothing is easier to write than scenery; nothing more difficult and unnecessary to read.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
I can't say I altogether blame the man (which is doubtless a great relief to his mind).
~ Jerome K. Jerome
But who wants to be foretold the weather?  It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it beforehand. 
~ Jerome K. Jerome
stove, and crowd round that. Rainwater is the chief article of diet at supper.  The bread is two-thirds rainwater, the beefsteak-pie is exceedingly rich in
~ Jerome K. Jerome
There are plenty of dogs in the town of Oxford.  Montmorency had eleven fights on the first day, and fourteen on the second, and evidently thought he had got to heaven.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
I am not sure, but I think it was in connection with a discussion on Maeterlinck.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
A Surreyside Saturday-night audience are generally inclined to be cheerful, and, if the fun on the stage doesn't satisfy them, they rely on their own resources.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
Has he been snatched up to heaven?" I queried. "They'd hardly have taken the pie too," said George.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
To the grave-faced JESTER to whom all life is but a volume of old humour -
~ Jerome K. Jerome
That trout lay shattered into a thousand fragments - I say a thousand, but they may only have been nine hundred. I did not count them.
~ Jerome K. Jerome
All he had was a concept, which could not be copyrighted. Ideas are in the public domain.
~ Unknown
According to Jerome, Mary laid the foundations of virginity for both sexes, and the moral superiority of virginity becomes clear in her person. The reality was the other way around: Virginity was not prized because Mary was always a virgin, rather Mary was made a perpetual virgin because virginity was so highly praised.
~ Unknown
The Dead Sea Scrolls contain biblical texts that represent an earlier stage of the transmission of the Hebrew text. They have been consulted, as have been the Samaritan Pentateuch and the ancient scribal traditions concerning deliberate textual changes. The translators also consulted the more important early versions—the Greek Septuagint, Aquila, Symmachus and Theodotion, the Latin vulgate, the Syriac Peshitta, the Aramaic Targums and, for the Psalms, the Juxta Hebraica of Jerome.
~ Philip Yancey
They're only just now decoding Dickens's Tavistock letter." It was the letter Jérôme Brunel was working on as part of his hobby.
~ Louise Penny
Only a crazy man would write a novel in Lincoln's voice.
~ Jerome Charyn
I had enquiries from Paris-Saint Germain and Manchester United, and I considered them.
~ Jerome Boateng