140 Quotations by Charles Caleb Colton
- 41. Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
- 42. In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest ar ...
- 43. It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our frie ...
- 44. It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane ...
- 45. It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
- 46. It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
- 47. It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to "meddle not".
- 48. It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our ...
- 49. Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myse ...
- 50. Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
- 51. Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
- 52. Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing th ...
- 53. Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. ...
- 54. Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted an ...
- 55. Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no s ...
- 56. Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by o ...
- 57. Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
- 58. Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they ...
- 59. Men spend their lives in anticipation, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they ha ...
- 60. Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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