140 Quotations by Charles Caleb Colton
- 61. Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquain ...
- 62. Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquain ...
- 63. Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
- 64. Most of our misfortunes are comments of our friends upon them.
- 65. Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most ...
- 66. My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in ...
- 67. Mystery is not profoundness.
- 68. Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying e ...
- 69. Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and t ...
- 70. Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife, unless the one is to be sold and t ...
- 71. Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
- 72. None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
- 73. Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and si ...
- 74. Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, i ...
- 75. Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, l ...
- 76. Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, a ...
- 77. Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause u ...
- 78. Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength
- 79. Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes ...
- 80. Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is presse ...
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