Cases Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to…

— Anthony Storr

“Charles's conversation was commonplace as a street pavement, and everyone's ideas trooped through it in their everyday garb, without exciting emotion, laughter, or thought.…

— Gustave Flaubert

“All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. With Major Major it had been all…

— Joseph Heller

That so unlikely an outcome should accrue to a man possessed of such limited talent and so many flaws, and one lacking in a…

— William Thomas Green Morton

“He had been educated in no habits of application and concentration. The system which had addressed him in exactly the same manner as it…

— Charles Dickens

“Major Major had been born too late and too mediocre. Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity…

— Joseph Heller

“Dr. John, throughout his whole life, was a man of luck - a man of success. And why? Because he had the eye to…

— Charlotte Brontë

The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for…

— Laurence Sterne

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

— Confucius

Charles was most comfortable by himself or, if that wasn't possible, with his pack in the wild. Talking for hours in a crowded auditorium…

— Patricia Briggs

“It is easy to be a virtuous man in good times. It is easy to be judged a success when luck runs with the…

— Sean Parnell