Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton

About Charles Caleb Colton:

Charles Caleb Colton was an English cleric, writer and collector, well known for his eccentricities.
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When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

Charles Caleb Colton

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

Charles Caleb Colton

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Charles Caleb Colton

We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.

Charles Caleb Colton

Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.

Charles Caleb Colton

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

Charles Caleb Colton

We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.

Charles Caleb Colton

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

Charles Caleb Colton

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Charles Caleb Colton

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.

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 two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

Charles Caleb Colton

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Charles Caleb Colton

True friendhip is like sound health: the value of it is seldom know until it is lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

La amistad puede convertirse en amor. El amor en amistad. . .nunca.

Charles Caleb Colton

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship often ends in love. But love in friendship; never.

Charles Caleb Colton

Men spend their lives in anticipations,—in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every other—it is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in ...

Charles Caleb Colton

The firmest friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame

Charles Caleb Colton

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Charles Caleb Colton

Author Bio

  • NameCharles Caleb Colton
  • DescriptionBRitish priest and writer
  • Born1780
  • Died1832
  • ProfessionWriter; Priest