Charles Caleb Colton quotes

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never. (Charles Caleb Colton)
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - live for it.
Charles Caleb Colton
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
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Charles Caleb Colton
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Charles Caleb Colton
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
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Charles Caleb Colton
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.
Charles Caleb Colton
Man is an embodied paradox, A bundle of contradictions.
Charles Caleb Colton
True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.
Charles Caleb Colton
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)
We ask advice, but we mean approbation.
Charles Caleb Colton
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
Charles Caleb Colton
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision And yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
Charles Caleb Colton
Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.
Charles Caleb Colton
In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.
Charles Caleb Colton
There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.
Charles Caleb Colton
To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who seek it the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.
Charles Caleb Colton
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Charles Caleb Colton
Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
Charles Caleb Colton
That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it. (Charles Caleb Colton)
When you have nothing to say, say nothing; a weak defense strengthens your opponent, and silence is less injurious than a bad reply.
Charles Caleb Colton
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
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
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