Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Colton
Charles Caleb Coltonwas an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
time retreat tides
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
time two black
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
time looks one-thing
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
friendship adversity flames
The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame.
crush war loss
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
cute time years
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
inspirational mean literature
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
blessing men perfect
Heaven may have happiness as utterly unknown to us as the gift of perfect vision would be to a man born blind. If we consider the inlets of pleasure from five senses only, we may be sure that the same Being who created us could have given us five hundred, if He had pleased.
happiness clouds broken
What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.
enemy want ifs
If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you.
angel talking people
Were we as eloquent as angels we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking.
mean advice asks
We ask advice but we mean approbation.
love wise men
Love is a volcano, the crater of which no wise man will approach too nearly, lest ... he should be swallowed up.
heart love-is self
We strive as hard to hide our hearts from ourselves as from others, and always with more success; for in deciding upon our own case we are both judge, jury, and executioner, and where sophistry cannot overcome the first, or flattery the second, self-love is always ready to defeat the sentence by bribing the third.