Charles Caleb Colton's Quotes

Charles Caleb Colton's Quotes 41

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into...

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom but with it genius has not...

War kills men and men deplore the loss but war also crushes bad principles...

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Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches but they mean...

The greatest friend of truth is Time her greatest enemy is Prejudice and...

Constant success shows us but one side of the world adversity brings out the...

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The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and...

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they...

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life by indifference by...

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In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those...

Patience is the support of weakness impatience the ruin of strength.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day...

Men are born with two eyes but with one tongue in order that they should...

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

In life we shall find many men that are great and some that are good but...

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you fill her above the brim with...

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes...

Knowledge is two-fold and consists not only in an affirmation of what is...

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who...

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others...

Happiness that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life impels...

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more...

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