217 ordspråk av Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton

Charles Caleb Colton föddes 1780 och dog 1832 - engelsk författare och prästman.
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He that will not permit his wealth to do any good to others while he is living prevents it from doing any good to himself when he is dead; and by an egotism that is suicidal and has a double edge, cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here, and t

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say

Menn

Habit will reconcile us to everything but change

Vane

Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish

Taushet

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.

Tonår

No company is preferable to bad, because we are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health

Affärslivet

There is this paradox in pride it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so

Stolthet

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.

Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, the first that dies

Hukommelse

I have somewhere seen it observed that we should make the same use of a book that the bee does of a flower; she steals sweets from it, but does not injure it

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

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture

Suksess

Ingen man är vis nog, eller god nog, för att betros med oinskränkt makt.

No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power.

Tilltro

The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

Liv

The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm

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