Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

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

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

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

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery

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

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

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.

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

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

He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.

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

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

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.