"Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience…" — Charles Caleb Colton

"Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker."

— 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 Banker Quotes

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If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Once I began following my own instincts, sales took off and I became a millionaire. And that, I think, is… — Larry Flynt
My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to… — Warren Christopher
It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are… — Thomas A. Edison
The old saying holds. Owe your banker �1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him �1 million and the… — John Maynard Keynes
If you owe your banker a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe your banker a million… — John Maynard Keynes
A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined,… — John Maynard Keynes
I can't remember the exact quote but when I used to trade and Mr. Volcker was Fed chairman, he said… — Rick Santelli
Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you,… — Alan Greenspan
I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business. — Jamie Dimon
Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling -- for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with… — Marian McPartland
A banker is a person who is willing to make you a loan if you present sufficient evidence to show… — Herbert V. Prochnow

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