charles caleb colton

When you have nothing to say, say nothing....

'When you have nothing to say, say nothing.'...

Mystery is not profoundness....

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep...

We ask advice, but we mean approbation....

'None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to kee...

If a horse has four legs, and I'm riding it, I think I can w...

The present time has one advantage over every other - it is ...

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence....

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

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; i...

'Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.'...

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance....

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; ...

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery....

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but whic...

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than...

Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order th...

Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order th...

Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes....

There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stu...

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest ...

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has littl...

'If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village;...

'Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order t...

Corruption is like a ball of snow, once it's set a rolling i...

Friendship, of itself a holy tie,Is made more sacred by adve...

I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent...

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time ...

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most know...

Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter t...

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm y...

'There is a paradox in pride: it makes some men ridiculous, ...

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost....

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before th...

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go furth...

He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant...

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less c...

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of ...

True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is sel...

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and ...

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for t...

Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmati...

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with ...

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness whe...

The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minutenes...

There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indiff...

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was la...

'Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield w...

'Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for ...