"He that has cut the claws of the……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth."
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Charles Caleb Colton
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484 Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton has 484 quotes on this site.
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Friendship often ends in love, but love in friendship - never.
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We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves.
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Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that…
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Early rising not only gives us more life in the same number of years, but adds, likewise, to their number;…
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us…
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There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
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Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps the one angels view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud…
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To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
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Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
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Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but…
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We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer…
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Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to…
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a…
— Charles Baudelaire
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws…
— A. S. Byatt
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Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils…
— Oscar Wilde
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The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws…
— Lewis Carroll
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Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand.
— Wislawa Szymborska
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Nature, red in tooth and claw.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon…
— George Orwell
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To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a…
— Fred Bear
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If the claws didn't retract, cats would be like Velcro
— Bruce Fogle
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As for your doctrines I am prepared to go to the Stake if requisite ... I trust you will not…
— Thomas Huxley
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