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Neither Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- Flattery is often a traffic of mutual meanness, where although both parties intend deception, neither are deceived.
- The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison;…
- The sun should not set upon our anger, neither should he rise upon our confidence. We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. I will not…
- The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and…
- Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.
- Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with…
- He that places himself neither higher nor lower than he ought to do exercises the truest humility.
- Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is to add murder…
- He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his…
- As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee,…
More Neither Quotes
- It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken. — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. — Francis of Assisi
- Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila
- It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final. — Roger Babson
- History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong. — Lord Acton
- We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone? — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life.… — Lucille Ball
- Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell. — Edward Abbey
- Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent… — Georges Bataille