black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.

Charles Caleb Colton

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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Books Flower Injury Observation Steal
The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Art Fools Hear Moments Publish Reading Sink Talk Value
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Circumstance Commerce Flourish Shore Wave
A fool is often as dangerous to deal with as a knave, and always more incorrigible.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Dangerous Deal Fools
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Fashion Happiness Love Pride Starve
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Goodness Greatness Life Man
We ask advice but we mean approbation.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
There are two principles of established acceptance in morals; first, that self-interest is the mainspring of all of our actions, and secondly, that utility is the test of their value.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Establishment Principle Test Value
Wit may do very well for a mistress, but I should prefer reason for a wife.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Anand Thakur
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Adjust Honesty Reality Result Strategy
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Bound Greatness Length Man Woman
An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Customer Fight Man Reason
The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Age Old Youth
The acquirements of science maybe termed the armor of the mind.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Mindset Science
An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Honesty Man Side Surround
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Current Doubt Kind Man Utility

An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

An honest man will continue to be so though surrounded on all sides by rogues.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes