Mortimer Collins Quotes

Edward James Mortimer Collins was an English poet and novelist.

✵ 29. June 1827 – 28. July 1876
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Famous Mortimer Collins Quotes

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

The Unknown Quantity, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“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.”

Sky-Making. (To Professor Tyndall), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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