Famous Quotes / John Churton Collins
18 Quotations by John Churton Collins
- 1. A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.
- 2. A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
- 3. All excess brings on its own punishments.
- 4. Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached.
- 5. If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues ...
- 6. In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.
- 7. Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.
- 8. Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
- 9. Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.
- 10. No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it.
- 11. The secret of success in life is known only to those who have not succeeded.
- 12. There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.
- 13. Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues.
- 14. To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one.
- 15. To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
- 16. To ask for advice is in nine cases out of ten to ask for flattery.
- 17. To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
- 18. What attracts us in a woman rarely binds us to her.