Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

Charles Caleb Colton

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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.

  

  H. G. Wells
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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.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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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.

  

  Samuel Butler
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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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• Our lady the Common Law is a very wise old lady though she still has something to learn in telling what she knows.

  

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• As a hip-hop artist who likes fashion, who can't help but notice people like Kanye West, Tiger, Big Sean and definitely T.I.P. These guys really understand how to be progressive and fashion forward.

  

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• I was a huge fan of the original Red Dawn. America and brothers, you can't beat that in my world. I think there's nothing greater.

  

  Jeffrey Dean Morgan
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• I've been around golf my whole life. My father did it all the time, and I resented him for it. But a couple years ago I picked up a golf club and I understood the physics of it. If anyone knows anything about golf, it's that once you hit a few shots, you'll become addicted.

  

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• By right, as the word is employed in this subject, has always been understood discretion, that is, a full and complete power of either doing a thing or omitting it, without the person's becoming liable to animadversion or censure from another, that is, in other words, without his incurring any degree of turpitude or guilt. Now in this sense I affirm that man has no rights, no discretionary power whatever.

  

  William Godwin
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• Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Wise
  • Silence