"Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity…" — Charles Caleb Colton
"Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit."
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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 Gravity Quotes
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours,…
— P T Barnum
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Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
— Dave Barry
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We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
— Wernher von Braun
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It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
— Wernher von Braun
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Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love,…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the…
— Margaret Cho
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You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.
— Clayton Christensen
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My physics teacher, Thomas Miner was particularly gifted. To this day, I remember how he introduced the subject of physics.…
— Steven Chu
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You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
— Alan Cohen
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can…
— Walter Anderson
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It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.
— Kofi Annan
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You've traveled up ten thousand steps in search of the truth. So many days in the archives, copying, copying. The…
— Hsu Yun
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