More from Charles Caleb Colton

  1. For one man who sincerely pities our misfortunes, there are a thousand who sincerely hates our successes.
  2. He that has never suffered adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself. Constant success shows us but one side of the wor…
  3. Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle, and discards her nurse.
  4. He that likes a hot dinner, a warm welcome, new ideas and old wine, will not often dine with the great.
  5. Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.
  6. Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible
  7. Drunkenness is the vice of a good constitution or a bad memory; of a constitution so treacherously good that it never bends until it break;…
  8. How small a portion of our life is that we really enjoy. In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age, we are loo…

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