Collectors Quotes

Collectors Quotes & Sayings

These collectors quotes and collectors sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. Trouble will come soon enough, and when he does come, receive him as pleasantly as possible. Like the tax collector, he is a disagreeable chap to have in one's house, but the more amiably you greet him the sooner he will go away. - Artemus Ward


Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors, and miss. - Robert A. Heinlein


To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. - Robertson Davies


There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labours of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


Jupiter is late in looking into his note-book. - Zenobius [Zenodatus]