"Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she……" — Charles Caleb Colton

"Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse."

— 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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More Cradle Quotes

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To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the… — Jane Austen
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin. — Henry Ward Beecher
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle… — Alfred Adler
From the cradle to the coffin underwear comes first. — Bertolt Brecht
Humanity is at the very beginning of its existence-a new-born babe, with all the unexplored potentialities of babyhood; and until… — James Jeans
Babies haven't any hair; Old men's heads are just as bare; between the cradle and the grave lie a haircut… — Samuel Hoffenstein
I would never rob your cradles to feed the dogs of war — Huey Long
There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven… — Glen Campbell
This is called 'the land of the free and the home of the brave'; it is called the 'asylum of… — William Wells Brown
For here lies the corner stone of all the injustices done woman, the wrong idea from which all other wrongs… — Ernestine Rose
God has given you your country as cradle, and humanity as mother; you cannot rightly love your brethren of the… — Giuseppe Mazzini
Silence is like a cradle holding our endeavors and our will; a silent spaciousness sustains us in our work and… — David Whyte

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