Mortimer Collins famous quotes

Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
-- Mortimer Collins

#Drug #May #More Time

The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.
-- Mortimer Collins

#Mind #Age #Way

There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess
-- Mortimer Collins

#Men #Class #Play

Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.
-- Mortimer Collins

#Pain #Physicians #Treasure

There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist — Then he was a Man and a Positivist.
-- Mortimer Collins

#Men #Hair #Thumbs

O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.
-- Mortimer Collins

#Wise #Fate #Past

Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.
-- Mortimer Collins

#Religion #Church #Deities

Pharmaceutical companies are very annoyed with niacin because their products have to compete with it. Some of their cholesterol-lowering drugs cost up to $150 a month while niacin costs about $10.

Propaganda must not serve the truth, especially as it might bring out something favorable for the opponent.

Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.

Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!

Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position.

Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma.

Because I’ve had a taste and I’m not sharing. This isn’t just for fun. I may be slightly addicted.

Staying with him. Letting him touch you, hold you, GOD. It's eating me alive. You may be keeping Sawyer from hating me but you're only making me hate him

If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.

I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.