Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

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.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

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

~ 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.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

A hug is worth a thousand words. A friend is worth more.True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

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.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice more drunkards than thirst and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further and try to plant a virtue in its place.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

Body and mind like man and wife do not always agree to die together.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

Never join with your friend when he abuses his horse or his wife unless the one is to be sold and the other to be buried.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

Did universal charity prevail earth would be a heaven and hell a fable.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities improve their talents but impair their virtues and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.

~ 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.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

Applause is the spur of noble minds the end and aim of weak ones.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

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

~ Charles Caleb Colton

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

~ 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.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

Eloquence is the language of nature and cannot be learned in the schools but rhetoric is the creature of art which he who feels least will most excel in.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

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

~ Charles Caleb Colton

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

~ Charles Caleb Colton

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

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

~ Charles Caleb Colton

The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

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.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

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.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

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

~ Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship often ends in love but love in friendship – never.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

~ Charles Caleb Colton