World Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

Faults of the head are punished in this world, those of the heart in another; but as most of our vices are…

— Charles Caleb Colton

This world cannot explain its own difficulties without the assistance of another.

— Charles Caleb Colton

There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There are many that despise half the world; but if there be any that despise the whole of it, it is because…

— Charles Caleb Colton

So long as lust, whether of the world or flesh, smells sweet in our nostrils, so long we are loathsome to God.

— Charles Caleb Colton

He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the…

— Charles Caleb Colton

To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies…

— Charles Caleb Colton

He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Constant success shows us but one side of the world. For as it surrounds us with friends who will tell us only…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I question if Epicurus and Hume have done mankind a greater service by the looseness of their doctrines than by the purity…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all;…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Those who worship gold in a world so corrupt as this we live in have at least one thing to plead in…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with…

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The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

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

Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will…

— Charles Caleb Colton

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Envy ought to have no place allowed it in the hearts of people; for the goods of this present world are so…

— Charles Caleb Colton

There is one passage in the Scriptures to which all the potentates of Europe seem to have given their unanimous assent and…

— Charles Caleb Colton

That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Men pursue riches under the idea that their possession will set them at ease, and above the world. But the law of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

When a man has displayed talent in some particular path, and left all competitors behind him in it, the world are too…

— Charles Caleb Colton