Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Children, Knowledge, Enemy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

• Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Children, Gambling, Parent

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.188

• How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Children, Father, Past

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”

• Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Children, Heaven, Wish

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.29

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