Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. — Charles Caleb Colton Black Copy Share Image
The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason. — Charles Caleb Colton Foe Copy Share Image
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies — Charles Caleb Colton Faculty Copy Share Image
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. — Charles Caleb Colton Agreed Copy Share Image
It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom. — Charles Caleb Colton Learning Copy Share Image
It has been well observed that we should treat futurity as an aged friend from whom we expect a rich legacy. — Charles Caleb Colton Friendship Copy Share Image
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. — Charles Caleb Colton Civil war Copy Share Image
Is there anything more tedious than the often repeated tales of the old and forgetful? — Charles Caleb Colton Forgetful Copy Share Image
It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself. — Charles Caleb Colton Deceive Copy Share Image
He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility. — Charles Caleb Colton Exercise Copy Share Image
If we trace the history of most revolutions, we shall find that the first inroads upon the laws have been made by… — Charles Caleb Colton Firsts Copy Share Image
Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only… — Charles Caleb Colton Acquaintance Copy Share Image
If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power… — Charles Caleb Colton Enemy Copy Share Image
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains. — Charles Caleb Colton Brain Copy Share Image
It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are… — Charles Caleb Colton Ancestry Copy Share Image
Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as… — Charles Caleb Colton Customs Copy Share Image
The greatest and most amiable privilege which the rich enjoy over the poor is that which they exercise the least--the privilege of… — Charles Caleb Colton Amiable Copy Share Image
There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it —… — Charles Caleb Colton Authorship Copy Share Image
Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is… — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with… — Charles Caleb Colton Alas Copy Share Image
The plainest man that can convince a woman that he is really in love with her has done more to make her… — Charles Caleb Colton Breasts Copy Share Image
The code of poor laws has at length grown up into a tree, which, like the fabulous Upas, overshadows and poisons the… — Charles Caleb Colton Bitter Copy Share Image
Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but… — Charles Caleb Colton All time Copy Share Image
There are many who say more than the truth on some occasions, and balance the account with their consciences by saying less… — Charles Caleb Colton Accounts Copy Share Image
As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable… — Charles Caleb Colton Being wise Copy Share Image
We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search… — Charles Caleb Colton Being real Copy Share Image
None of us are so much praised or censured as we think. — Charles Caleb Colton Inspirational Copy Share Image
I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent. — Charles Caleb Colton Adolescent Copy Share Image
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results. — Charles Caleb Colton Being real Copy Share Image
