"I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to……" — Charles Caleb Colton
"I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent."
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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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More Adolescent Quotes
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To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent.
— Dave Barry
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
— Kate Beckinsale
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With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral…
— Omar N. Bradley
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It's possible that I've matured as a writer, and I hope I've matured emotionally, but I always find myself revisiting…
— Diablo Cody
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I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.
— Neal Cassady
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Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness.
— James Broughton
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Life is expressed in a perpetual sequence of changes. The birth of the child is the death of the baby,…
— Arnaud Desjardins
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We must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie, and rage.
— Charles Krauthammer
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One cannot properly appreciate the human realities so long as one labors under the adolescent delusion that people get the…
— Unknown Author
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We have the most prolonged adolescence in the history of mankind. There is no other society that requires so many…
— Ralph Nader
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At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I do turn down things that I feel aren't right for me, like when it's some kind of adolescent thing…
— Selma Blair
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