Men’s arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
CHARLES CALEB COLTONHappiness leads none of us by the same route.
More Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
-
-
Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
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.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
The good opinion of our fellow men is the strongest, though not the purest motive to virtue.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
The victim to too severe a law is considered as a martyr rather than a criminal.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
Diffidence is the better part of knowledge.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON -
The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON