Quote #33

Love may exist with out jealousy, although this is rare; but jealousy can exist without love, and this is common, for jealousy can feed on that which is bitter, no less than that which is sweet, and is sustained by pride, as often as by affection.

More from Charles Caleb Colton

  1. Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
  2. Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
  3. Law and equity are two things which God hath joined, but which man hath put asunder.
  4. Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.
  5. King James held convocation at Perth and demanded of the Scotch barons that they should produce the charters by which they held their lands…
  6. Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
  7. It is only when the rich are sick, that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
  8. Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.

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