Churton Quotes & Sayings

Though pride is not a virtue, it is the parent of many virtues. — John Churton Collins

To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery. — John Churton Collins

What attracts us in a woman rarely binds us to her. — John Churton Collins

To accept a favor from a friend is to confer one. — John Churton Collins

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

Have you ever really held the hand of someone you love? Not just in passing, a loose link between you - but truly clasped, with the pulses of your wrists beating together and your fingers mapping the knuckles and nails like a cartographer learning a country by heart? — Jodi Picoult

Our dove, however, has a simple home, always in high and open places toward the light since this symbol of the Holy Spirit loves the sunrise, the symbol of Christ. Just so, truth blushes at nothing except being hidden away, because no one is ashamed to listen to her, to learn to recognize as God the one whom nature has already pointed out to him as God, the one whom he sees daily in all his works. For — Tobias Churton

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody. — John Churton Collins

Envy and fear are the only passions to which no pleasure is attached. — John Churton Collins

Suicide is the worst form of murder, because it leaves no opportunity for repentance. — John Churton Collins

A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy. — John Churton Collins

It is wrong to say: I think. One ought to say: I am thought. I is someone else. — Arthur Rimbaud

The secret of success in life is known only by those who have not succeeded. — John Churton Collins

Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers. — John Churton Collins

Kids win this'n'that every day. Thousands of them. One out of a hundred fights professionally. One out of a thousand's worth watchin', one out of a million's worth coffee and doughnuts. — Abraham Polonsky

No one who deserves confidence ever solicits it. — John Churton Collins

Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor. — John Churton Collins

Sleep 'til you're hungry, eat 'til you're sleepy. — Niall Horan

I think she did really try her hardest to get over him. You would, wouldn't you, if someone had hurt you like that? You'd make all kinds of promises to yourself not to let them do something like that again. But wouldn't a small part of you always be wondering "what if" Wouldn't some part of you - a part that you might not want to exist - still be holding out for that happy ending? It's how we're built isn't it? No matter how many times you get slapped in the face you have to believe that the next time would be different. And then in comes the guy who hurt you all those years ago, and he wants to make things better and to prove he's not all talk- this time it will be different. How could she not fall for that? How could she not think that if she chose him it would finally lift the shadow that he'd cast over her life? All that hurt, all that suffering wouldn't have been for nothing then, would it? If he'd come back to you like that, would you have taken him back? — Mike Gayle

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

Warcraft as a film suprises me a lot of and I really like it. — Deyth Banger

If we escape punishment for our vices, why should we complain if we are not rewarded for our virtues? — John Churton Collins

I also learned that I must walk by the Spirit, trust God, and not allow my emotions to dictate my actions. Faith cannot exist alongside fear. — MaryLu Tyndall

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult. — John Churton Collins

Scooting forward, I pressed my lips to his smooth cheek. His eyes widened. — J. Lynn

If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find. — John Churton Collins

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

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

The right, like Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbauggh, use women and the black man and the Hispanic immigrant and the gay man as a scapgoat for society's ills. They pretend it's about traditional family values, but that's a bullshit phrase that means nothing to me. They like to use us all. They use pro-life as a way to hate women and slam women, dressed up in the nobility of saving unborn fetuses. I think it's just misogyny. — Janeane Garofalo

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends. — John Churton Collins

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire. — John Churton Collins