Charles Caleb Colton Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)
Charles Caleb Colton quotes and sayings page 5 (writer). Here's quote # 41 through 50 out of the 92 we have.
“Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.”
“Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.”
“Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.”
“To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail, our pride supports us - when we succeed, it betrays us.”
“There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.”
“Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.”
“We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.”
“None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.”
“If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city.”
“Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.”
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