| 74 Famous Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
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“Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay”
Affliction Quotes |
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“True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.”
Cute friendship Quotes |
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“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never.”
Cute friendship Quotes |
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“Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.”
Examination Quotes |
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“The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later”
Excess Quotes |
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“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”
Falsehood Quotes |
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“Imitation is the sincerest flattery”
Imitation Quotes |
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“When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted”
Maxim Quotes |
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“To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.”
Meetings Quotes |
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“He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.”
Study Quotes |
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“Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live”
Suicide Quotes |
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“That writer does the most, who gives his reader the most
knowledge, and takes from him the least time.”
Authorship Quotes Source: Lacon (preface)
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“Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of
goods.”
Choice Quotes Source: Lacon (p. 362)
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“Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.”
Flattery Quotes Source: Lacon (p. 127)
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“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak
ones.”
Applause Quotes Source: Lacon (p. 205)
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“Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their
friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe
it to sinister and interested motives if they can.”
Friends Quotes Source: Lacon (p. 80)
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“To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to
know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the
pains of power are real, its pleasure imaginary.”
Power Quotes Source: Lacon (p. 255)
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“Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of
our friends upon them.”
Misfortune Quotes Source: Lacon (p. 238)
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“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity.”
Friendship Quotes |
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“Subtract from the great man all that he owes to opportunity, all that he owes to chance, and all that he gained by the wisdom of his friends and the folly of his enemies, and the giant will often be seen to be a pygmy.”
Opportunity Quotes |
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“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.”
Applause Quotes |
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“Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.”
Charity Quotes |
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“Physical courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and moral courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another.”
Courage Quotes |
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“Imitation is the sincerest flattery.”
Imitation Quotes |
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“No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.”
Integrity Quotes |
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Charles Caleb Colton Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings
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