Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
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If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.
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He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.
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Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
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Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
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Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory-of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks; or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
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There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
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Mystery is not profoundness.
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In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
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Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
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Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.
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Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
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The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
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Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.
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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
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Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
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To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
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It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
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From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration.
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Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
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To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it; the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
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True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
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He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
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Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.