If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win. — Charles Caleb Colton Four Copy Share Image
Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates… — Charles Caleb Colton Conversation Copy Share Image
He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. — Charles Caleb Colton Adversity Copy Share Image
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay and present praise. — Charles Caleb Colton Death Copy Share Image
No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease… — Charles Caleb Colton Business Copy Share Image
As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their… — Charles Caleb Colton Body Copy Share Image
There are three modes of bearing the ills of life; by indifference, which is the most common; by philosophy, which is the… — Charles Caleb Colton Indifference Copy Share Image
Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the… — Charles Caleb Colton Clash Copy Share Image
A leveller has long ago been set down as a ridiculous and chimerical being, who, if he could finish his work to-day,… — Charles Caleb Colton Equality Copy Share Image
Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look… — Charles Caleb Colton Achievement Copy Share Image
No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain. — Charles Caleb Colton Certain Copy Share Image
Nothing is more durable than the dynasty of Doubt; for he reigns in the hearts of all his people, but gives satisfaction… — Charles Caleb Colton Despots Copy Share Image
It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge. — Charles Caleb Colton Difficult Copy Share Image
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large… — Charles Caleb Colton Anxious Copy Share Image
Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself… — Charles Caleb Colton Compare Copy Share Image
Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite. — Charles Caleb Colton Class Copy Share Image
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality. — Charles Caleb Colton Avarice Copy Share Image
The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. — Charles Caleb Colton Bolts Copy Share Image
Style is indeed the valet of genius, and an able one too; but as the true gentleman will appear, even in rags,… — Charles Caleb Colton Able Copy Share Image
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 Flesh Copy Share Image
Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which… — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
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 Causes Copy Share Image
There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them. — Charles Caleb Colton Deceived Copy Share Image
