(13 quotes found)
“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 C. Collins
“We make more enemies by what we say than friends by what we do”
“Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody”
“To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery”
“Too nicely, Jonson knew the critic's part; nature in him was almost lost in Art”
“Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers”
“A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.”
“Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor.”
“A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy.”