What did Charles Caleb Colton mean by: Folly disgusts us less by her ignorance than pedantry by her learning. Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England Copy
Body and mind, like man and wife, do not always agree to die together. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Conflict, Mortality, Relationship, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
I will not be revenged, and this I owe to my enemy; but I will remember, and this I owe to myself. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Forgiveness, Memory, self-care, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Humor, Marriage, Preference, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Cowardice, Overcoming, Power, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Fickleness, Instability, Opinion, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Conflict, Unity, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Adversity, Self-awareness, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
Envy is the coward side of Hate, And all her ways are bleak and desolate. Author, December 25, 2023January 1, 2025, Charles Caleb Colton, Cowardice, Desolation, Jealousy, 0 Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
A blockhead cannot come in, nor go away, nor sit, nor rise, nor stand, like a man of sense. Read explanation Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Nothing sways the stupid more than arguments they can’t understand. Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
Anyone who hasn’t experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all. Read explanation Jean Genet Playwright · France
