ISearchQuotations.com

 

Add the "Quote Of The Day" to your Site or Blog. Its FREE!
  

Search for charles caleb colton by the Authors category
Quotations
Browse
|
< Authors >
Browse
|
Categories
Browse
Results 1 to 10 out of 25
"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."
Author:     Charles Caleb Colton Category:     Ability

"The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later."
Author:     Charles Caleb Colton Category:     Age and Aging

"Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones."
Author:     Charles Caleb Colton Category:     Applause

"He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed."
Author:     Charles Caleb Colton Category:     Belief

"Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable."
Author:     Charles Caleb Colton Category:     Charity

"Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused."
Author:     Charles Caleb Colton Category:     Conversation

"Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console."
Author:     Charles Caleb Colton Category:     Death and Dying

"Pedantry is the showy display of knowledge which crams our heads with learned lumber and then takes out our brains to make room for it."
Author:     Charles Caleb Colton Category:     Detail

"We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear."
Author:     Charles Caleb Colton Category:     Fear

"True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
Author:     Charles Caleb Colton Category:     Friends and Friendship


<1> 2 3
next >

  


Link to us    |    Terms and Conditions    |    Help     |    Privacy Notice    |    Bug Report    |    Contact us
 ISearchQuotations.com
 Top 10 searches
 Last 10 Searches
 Browse Authors
 Browse Categories
 Quote of the day
 Add to favorites
 Links

 Quotations
 Jokes
 Beers
 Cars
 Plants
 Bible Verses
 Quran Verses