Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Birth

Quotes about: Birth

• 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

  Clever, Eye, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.69

• With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Law, Genius, Talent

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.300

• Nobility of birth does not always insure a corresponding unity of mind; if it did, it would always act as a stimulus to noble actions; but it sometimes acts as a clog rather than a spur.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Unity, Mind, Spurs

  Charles Caleb Colton (1825). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words : Addressed to Those who Think”, p.83

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