A cool blooded and crafty politician, when he would be thoroughly revenged on his enemy, makes the injuries which have been inflicted,… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A thorough-paced knave will rarely quarrel with one whom he can cheat: his revenge is plunder; therefore he is usually the most… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If you cannot avoid a quarrel with a blackguard, let your lawyer manage it, rather than yourself. No man sweeps his own… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Villainy that is vigilant will be an overmatch for virtue, if she slumber at her post. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Where one has been saved… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by reputation, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We ought not to be over-anxious to encourage innovation in cases of doubtful improvement, for an old system must ever have two advantages over… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed, but to those who have differed — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
