Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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I've always been a bit of a poser. I was chucked out of ballet lessons for looking in the mirror.
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Silence is also conversation.
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Nice girls aren't always what they seem.
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First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.
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When we were subjected to a vicious character assassination campaign orchestrated by senior White House officials and championed by their allies in the right-wing echo chamber, Hillary reached out to us. Her counsel during that tumultuous period was as timely as it was wise.
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The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.
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Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world.
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Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.
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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
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Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.
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I like peace and solitude and silence.
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
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The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
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Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
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Silence and tact may or may not be the same thing.
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They will never shoulder a musket again in anger, and if Grant is wise, he will leave them their guns to shoot crows with and their horses to plow with. It would do no harm.
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Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make us well. They have forgotten, if they ever knew, the ancient knowledge that only by being truly sick can one regain health. Even beasts know when it is good and proper to throw up. Teach me how to be sick then, in the right time and place, so that I may again walk in the fields and with the wise and smiling dogs know enough to chew sweet grass.
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'Try to avoid painting in places where they still point at aeroplanes.'
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If someone doesn't want me, I'm not going to hang around and win them over.
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I believe that only scientists can understand the universe. It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong.
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Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
