3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
3 December 2020 Charles Caleb Colton The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
