Charles Caleb Colton Quotes - Page 2

• War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  War, Winning, Games

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.246

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• Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Education, Teaching, Knowledge

  'Lacon' (1820) vol. 1, no. 322

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• In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Greatness, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.69

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• There are three kinds of praise, that which we yield, that which we lend, and that which we pay. We yield it to the powerful from fear, we lend it to the weak from interest, and we pay it to the deserving from gratitude.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gratitude, Powerful, Yield

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.188

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• The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Powerful, Weak, Said

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.195

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• We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Imagination, Inquiry, Causes

  Lacon: or many things in a few words (p. 111)

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• We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Self Esteem, War, Loser

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.189

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• Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Conquer, Negotiation, Grants

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.187

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• Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Regret, Sleep, Insomnia

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

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• It is best, if possible, to deceive no one; for he that ... begins by deceiving others, will end ... by deceiving himself.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Deceiving Others, Deception, Ends

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• Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Success, Congratulations, Adversity

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• 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.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Success, Pride, Winning

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.146

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• Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often produces a relapse, which is remorse--a malady far more dreadful than the first disease, because it is incurable.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Revenge, Blood, Fever

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.169

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• That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Giving, Doe, Literature

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.11

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• Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Strong, Mind, Haste

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.174

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• An Irish man fights before he reasons, a Scotchman reasons before he fights, an Englishman is not particular as to the order of precedence, but will do either to accommodate his customers.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Business, Fighting, Men

  Philip Dormer Stanhope (4th earl of Chesterfield.), Charles Caleb Colton (1861). “Lord Chesterfield's advice to his son on men and manners. To which are added, selections from Colton's 'Lacon'.”, p.188

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• A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fire, Age, Youth

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.57

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• It is better to meet danger than to wait for it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Waiting, Encounters, Danger

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.142

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• It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Coats, Every Man

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.112

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• Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Fashion, Pride, Clothes

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.454

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• War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Crush, War, Loss

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• Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Real, Honest, Strategy

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• To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it: the pains of power are real, its pleasures imaginary.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pain, Real, Power

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.187

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• The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gratitude, Revenge, Adversity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.297

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• Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Knowledge, Science, Two

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.102

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