Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.
Charles Caleb Colton

Love, Friendship, Often

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Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Charles Caleb Colton

Imitation, Flattery, Sincerest

Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy.
Charles Caleb Colton

True, Friends, Again

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship, Health, True

Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Charles Caleb Colton

Simple, Nothing, Integrity

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.
Charles Caleb Colton

Wise, Silence, Foolish

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
Charles Caleb Colton

Actions, Threats, Loudest

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.
Charles Caleb Colton

Love, Woman, Cannot

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling it must increase.
Charles Caleb Colton

Snow, Corruption, Once

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Charles Caleb Colton

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
Charles Caleb Colton

Love, Happiness, Fashion

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
Charles Caleb Colton

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.
Charles Caleb Colton

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
Charles Caleb Colton

Alone, Courage, Live

Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live.
Charles Caleb Colton

Live, Die, Sometimes

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence.
Charles Caleb Colton

Study, Begins, Ends

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.
Charles Caleb Colton

Patience, Strength, Support

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
Charles Caleb Colton

Life, Time, Book

It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
Charles Caleb Colton

Storm, Wait, Sea

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Charles Caleb Colton

Great, Greatest, Confusion

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.
Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness, Wisdom, Fool

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
Charles Caleb Colton

Simple, Thought, Made

Nothing so completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity himself, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
Charles Caleb Colton

Simple, Nothing, Integrity

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
Charles Caleb Colton

True, Enough, Large

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Charles Caleb Colton

Good, Power, Best

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: 1780

Died: 1832

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