140 Quotations by Charles Caleb Colton
- 121. To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
- 122. To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pri ...
- 123. To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to th ...
- 124. To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
- 125. To sentence a man of true genius to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.
- 126. To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to r ...
- 127. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was ...
- 128. True friendship is like sound health -- the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
- 129. Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
- 130. We ask advice but we mean approbation.
- 131. We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
- 132. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them ...
- 133. We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
- 134. We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
- 135. Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that ...
- 136. Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talkin ...
- 137. When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove y ...
- 138. When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than suff ...
- 139. When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
- 140. Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
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