Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.
Charles Caleb Colton
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Charles Caleb Colton
Died: 1832
Died: January 1
Priest
Writer
Charles Colton
Taste
Respect
Flavour
Water
Proceed
Words
Channel
Often
Flows
Character
Mouth
Take
Mouths
Like
Flow
More quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges.
Charles Caleb Colton
Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest.
Charles Caleb Colton
Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Charles Caleb Colton
If our eloquence be directed above the heads of our hearers, we shall do no execution. By pointing our arguments low, we stand a chance of hitting their hearts as well as their heads. In addressing angels, we could hardly raise our eloquence too high but we must remember that men are not angels.
Charles Caleb Colton
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
Charles Caleb Colton
Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.
Charles Caleb Colton
Like the rainbow, peace rests upon the earth, but its arch is lost in heaven. Heaven bathes it in hues of light--it springs up amid tears and clouds--it is a reflection of the eternal sun--it is an assurance of calm--it is the sign of a great covenant between God and man--it is an emanation from the distant orb of immortal light.
Charles Caleb Colton
Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.
Charles Caleb Colton
Ignorance lies at the bottom of all human knowledge, and the deeper we penetrate, the nearer we arrive unto it.
Charles Caleb Colton
If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress.
Charles Caleb Colton
Miss Edgeworth and Mme. de Stael have proved that there is no sex in style and Mme. la Roche Jacqueline, and the Duchesse d'Angouleme have proved that there is no sex in courage.
Charles Caleb Colton
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.
Charles Caleb Colton
No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked no growth more certain.
Charles Caleb Colton
We ask advice but we mean approbation.
Charles Caleb Colton
The wealth is ultimately just a relative thing. As a person with little money and little more needs to rich guys money but really wishes
Charles Caleb Colton
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer.
Charles Caleb Colton
Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or of a bad memory of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends till it breaks or of a memory that recollects the pleasures of getting intoxicated, but forgets the pains of getting sober.
Charles Caleb Colton
God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
Charles Caleb Colton
If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can win.
Charles Caleb Colton
Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.
Charles Caleb Colton
