"Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience…" — Charles Caleb Colton
"Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker."
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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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If I did not believe in God, I should still want my doctor, my lawyer and my banker to do…
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Once I began following my own instincts, sales took off and I became a millionaire. And that, I think, is…
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My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to…
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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
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The old saying holds. Owe your banker �1000 and you are at his mercy; owe him �1 million and the…
— John Maynard Keynes
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If you owe your banker a thousand pounds, you are at his mercy. If you owe your banker a million…
— John Maynard Keynes
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A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined,…
— John Maynard Keynes
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I can't remember the exact quote but when I used to trade and Mr. Volcker was Fed chairman, he said…
— Rick Santelli
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Since I've become a central banker, I've learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you,…
— Alan Greenspan
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I am not embarrassed to be a banker. I am not embarrassed to be in business.
— Jamie Dimon
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Sometimes go around with guys who are scuffling -- for awhile. But usually they end up marrying some cat with…
— Marian McPartland
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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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