“Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship – never.”
Charles Caleb Colton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Love
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“Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.”
Charles Caleb Colton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Conversation
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“Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.”
Charles Caleb Colton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Conflict
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“It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.”
Charles Caleb Colton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Wealth
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“Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.”
Charles Caleb Colton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Truth
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“Time; that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.”
Charles Caleb Colton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Time
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“Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.”
Charles Caleb Colton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Charity
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“Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.”
Charles Caleb Colton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Reading
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“Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.”
Charles Caleb Colton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.”
Charles Caleb Colton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Belief
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“When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.”
Charles Caleb Colton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Success
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“Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.”
Charles Caleb Colton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Soul
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“Silence is foolish if we are wise, but wise if we are foolish.”
Charles Caleb Colton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Silence
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“There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.”
Charles Caleb Colton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“No man is wise enough, or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.”
Charles Caleb Colton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Power
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“Pity is a thing often vowed, seldom felt; hatred is a thing often felt, seldom avowed.”
Charles Caleb Colton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Pity
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“Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength”
Charles Caleb Colton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Patience
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“To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.”
Charles Caleb Colton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Past
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“Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make them.”
Charles Caleb Colton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Opportunity
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“Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.”
Charles Caleb Colton
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Negotiation
