Churton Collins Quotes

#1. A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.

John Churton Collins

#2. If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues?

John Churton Collins

#3. Suicide is the worst form of murder, because it leaves no opportunity for repentance.

John Churton Collins

#4. The secret of success in life is known only by those who have not succeeded.

John Churton Collins

#5. Half of our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel. - John Churton Collins The person who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

William Magee

#6. To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

John Churton Collins

#7. No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.

John Churton Collins

#8. 'Upside Down' is a fantasy love story. It's about love at first sight - when you just fall in love instantly and will battle any obstacle to be with that girl.

Jim Sturgess

#9. 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

#10. Xochimilco in Mexico, where skies, mountains, and poplars are reflected,

Paramahansa Yogananda

#11. Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.

John Churton Collins

#12. Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

John Churton Collins

#13. There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

John Churton Collins

#14. If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find.

John Churton Collins

#15. Python language is one example. As we noted above, it is also heavily used for mathematical and scientific papers, and will probably dominate that niche for some years yet. 18.3.3

Eric S. Raymond

#16. What attracts us in a woman rarely binds us to her.

John Churton Collins

#17. Half our mistakes in life arise from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

John Churton Collins

#18. A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

John Churton Collins

#19. Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.

John Churton Collins

#20. Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.

John Churton Collins

#21. Women fancy admiration means more than it does.

Mary Lydon Simonsen

#22. Over the years, he [Everett Dirksen] developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping twelve-year-old bourbon, straight, while reading Dickens aloud, in a sort of sepulchral purr.

Lance Morrow

#23. So that's all we're doingoing here now? Catering to the rich?'

'We'really here for the tango,' Santiago said. 'Our music will reach far more people because we'really here'

'And the workers? The tango came from us, it belongs to us!

Carolina De Robertis

#24. We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.

John Stott

#25. In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

John Churton Collins

#26. To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.

John Churton Collins

#27. Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers.

John Churton Collins

#28. All policy is a matter of gains and losses, upsides and downsides.

Michael Mandelbaum

#29. I think that talented people really do have insecurities, and that is one of the things that kind of motivates them, because that's one thing they know they're good at. And when they're up on that stage, you can do no wrong. The audience is yours; they're there to see you.

Natalie Cole