Colin Jordan famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

  • The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.

  • I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning.

  • This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.

  • God wants us to speak to men so that they will feel it, so that they will never forget it. God means every Christian to be effective, to make a difference in the actual records and results of Christian work. God put each of us here to be a power. There is not one of us but is an essential wheel of the machinery and can accomplish all that God calls us to.

  • When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

  • Immortality is to live your life doing good things, and leaving your mark behind.

  • Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.

  • Immortality alone could teach this mortal how to die.

  • Inequalities of Fate very curious. Should like, on this account, to believe in Reincarnation.

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