210 ordspråk av Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
 Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears. |
| Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. |
| Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess. |
| Life often presents us with a choice of evils rather than of goods |
| Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual. |
| Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. |
| Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others. |
| Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner. |
| Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them |
| Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them |
| Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say |
| Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it |
| Men, by associating in large masses, as in camps and cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds, but weaken their morals; thus a retrocession in the one, is too often the price they pay for a refinement of the |
| Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes |
| Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance |
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