Mortimer Collins Quotes

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Just take a trifling handful, O philosopher!
Of magic matter: give it a slight toss over
The ambient ether—and I don't see why
You should n't make a sky.

Mortimer Collins

A man is as old as he's feeling, a woman is as old as she looks.

Mortimer Collins

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

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

Mortimer Collins

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

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

Mortimer Collins

Mortimer Collins

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Born: June 29, 1827

Died: July 28, 1876 (aged 49)

Bio: Edward James Mortimer Collins was an English poet and novelist.

Known for:

Thoughts in My Garden
Sweet and Twenty: In Two Volumes (1875)
The inn of strange meetings and other poems (1871)

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