What did Charles Caleb Colton mean by: Wit may do very well for a mistress, but [I] should prefer reason for a wife. - Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England Copy
+ There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself! Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Caleb Colton, Fear, Inspiration, Paradox, 0 - Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
+ Oppression cannot prosper where none will submit to be enslaved. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Caleb Colton, Oppression, Submit, 0 - Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
+ It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Caleb Colton, Argument, Maxims, Wise, 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. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Caleb Colton, Fickle, Honor, Opinion, 0 - Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
+ Temperate men drink the most, because they drink the longest. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Caleb Colton, Drink, 0 - Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
+ We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Caleb Colton, Despise, Fear, 0 - Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
+ The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Caleb Colton, Anger, Hatred, Rage, 0 - Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
+ Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others. Feraz Zeid, December 25, 2023January 10, 2024, Charles Caleb Colton, Snares, Temptation, Wealth, 0 - Charles Caleb Colton Writer · England
I already have a wife who is too much for me.. she is my art, and my works are my children. - Michelangelo Artist · Italy
A wife loves out of duty, and duty leads to constraint, and constraint kills desire. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
My wife holds the kite strings that let me go ‘weeeeeee’, then she reels me back in. - Jeff Bridges Actor · USA
I’m not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I’m not physically capable. - Jeremy Clarkson Television presenter · England
After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me. - William Lilly
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one. - William Makepeace Thackeray Author · India
