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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• Silence is my dignity.

  

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• First off, no one award-wise ever rewards comedy, which is... whatever. I don't care about that.

  

  Adam McKay
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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.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • True
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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.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Great
  • Team

• Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.

  

  Dan Jenkins
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• It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

  

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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.

  

  Carla Bruni
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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.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
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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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• There is nothing quite as painful as a truly awkward silence.

  

  Robert Farrell Smith
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• The Obama administration came into Utah and said, 'We're not going to listen to what the U.S. Supreme Court said. 'We, the federal government, are going to recognize marriages in the state of Utah and Utah state law explicitly does not recognize as marriage,' and that was really, in my view, an abuse of power.

  

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• The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

  

  C. S. Lewis
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• Tea tempers the spirits and harmonizes the mind, dispels lassitude and relieves fatigue, awakens thought and prevents drowsiness, lightens or refreshes the body, and clears the perceptive faculties.

  

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

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Wise
  • Silence