"A youth without fire is followed by an……" — Charles Caleb Colton

"A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience."

— Charles Caleb Colton

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484 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton has 484 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that…
Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number;…
Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us…
There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud…
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but…
We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer…
Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to…

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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