John Churton Collins famous quotes

07-15-2025

Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.
-- John Churton Collins

#Inspirational #Mistake #Thinking
In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
-- John Churton Collins

#Friendship #Adversity #Prosperity
If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.
-- John Churton Collins

#Secret #Comfort #Should
No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.
-- John Churton Collins

#Confidence #Deserve
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
-- John Churton Collins

#Inspirational #Faults #Mistrust
We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot he has to guard. The sole responsibility in each case is to prevent them from settling.
-- John Churton Collins

#Responsibility #Evil #Bird
In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining, And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea; With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn, While I carol away idle sorrow, And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn, Look forward with hope for to-morrow.
-- John Churton Collins

#Sea #Sorrow #Dawn
To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.
-- John Churton Collins

#Friendship #Favors #Accepting
What attracts us in a woman rarely binds us to her.
-- John Churton Collins

#Relationship #Attraction
Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.
-- John Churton Collins

#Pride #Parent #Virtue
A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
-- John Churton Collins

#Thinking #Fool #Failing
Suicide is the worst form of murder, because it leaves no opportunity for repentance.
-- John Churton Collins

#Suicide #Opportunity #Murder
The secret of success in life is known only by those who have not succeeded.
-- John Churton Collins

#Success #True Life #Secret
Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.
-- John Churton Collins

#Philosophy #Philosopher #Truth Is
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
-- John Churton Collins

#Advice #Nine #Flattery
If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?
-- John Churton Collins

#Punishment #Vices #Complaining
A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
-- John Churton Collins

#Wise #Men #Thinking
There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
-- John Churton Collins

#Desire #Danger
Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
-- John Churton Collins

#Men #Trust Issues #Speak
Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.
-- John Churton Collins

#Attitude #Favors #Claims
Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.
-- John Churton Collins

#Passion #Envy #Pleasure

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