Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength.

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is our own.

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

We hate some persons because we do not know them; and will not know them because we hate them.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them.

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receive.

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are not wholly wrong; as no watches so effectually deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.

The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

When the frustration of my helplessness seemed greatest, I discovered God's grace was more than sufficient. And after my imprisonment, I could look back and see how God used my powerlessness for His purpose. What He has chosen for my most significant witness was not my triumphs or victories, but my defeat.

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.