We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Those that know the least of others think the highest of themselves. — Charles Caleb Colton Bullying Copy Share Image
He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment. — Charles Caleb Colton Amendment Copy Share Image
Success seems to be that which forms the distinction between confidence and conceit. — Charles Caleb Colton Achievement Copy Share Image
He that can please nobody is not so much to be pitied as he that nobody can please. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people… — Charles Caleb Colton Flow Copy Share Image
As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology… — Charles Caleb Colton Book Copy Share Image
It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
In cases of doubtful morality, it is usual to say is there any harm in doing this? This question may sometimes be… — 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
Happiness is much more equally divided than some of us imagine. One man shall possess most of the materials, but little of… — Charles Caleb Colton Desert Copy Share Image
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we… — Charles Caleb Colton Angel Copy Share Image
Those who have resources within themselves, who can dare to live alone, want friends the least, but, at the same time, best… — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
My take away here is to not make assumptions when analyzing data. It might be safe to assume you Facebook page will… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for… — Charles Caleb Colton Aggression Copy Share Image
The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. — Charles Caleb Colton Acquaintance Copy Share Image
Peace is the evening star of the soul, as virtue is its sun, and the two are never far apart. — Charles Caleb Colton Evening Copy Share Image
If all seconds were as averse to duels as their principals, very little blood would be shed in that way. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. — Charles Caleb Colton Doubt Copy Share Image
False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities. — Charles Caleb Colton Absurdities Copy Share Image
“Men are born with two eyes but only one tongue in order that they should see twice as much as they say.” — Charles Caleb Colton Eyes Copy Share Image
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock. — Charles Caleb Colton Business Copy Share Image
Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved. — Charles Caleb Colton Character Copy Share Image
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil. — Charles Caleb Colton Choice 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
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 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
It is better to have wisdom without learning than learning without wisdom. — Charles Caleb Colton Learning Copy Share Image
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
