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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.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time, which every day produces, and which most men throw away, but which nevertheless will make at the end of it no small deduction for the life of man.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but--live for it.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say
By Charles Caleb Colton
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them
By Charles Caleb Colton
Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead It is a flame which sinks for lack of fuel.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride
By Charles Caleb Colton
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.
By Charles Caleb Colton
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
By Charles Caleb Colton
It is not so difficult a task to plant new truths, as to root out old errors for there is this paradox in men, they run after that which is new, but are prejudiced in favor of that which is old.
By Charles Caleb Colton
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
By Charles Caleb Colton
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
By Charles Caleb Colton
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
By Charles Caleb Colton
In America every woman has her set of girl-friends some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who 'come out' together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.
By Charles Caleb Colton
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
By Charles Caleb Colton
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city
By Charles Caleb Colton
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours
By Charles Caleb Colton
If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.
By Charles Caleb Colton
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
By Charles Caleb Colton
He that knows himself, knows others and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
By Charles Caleb Colton
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
By Charles Caleb Colton