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Jeremy Collier Quotes

Best Quotes by Jeremy Collier (Top 8)

  1. Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.
  2. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
  3. Idleness is an inlet to disorder, and makes way for licentiousness. People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.
  4. Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
  5. Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty gives way.
  6. The road to heaven lies as near by water as by land.
  7. Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
  8. How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.