Quote #36

Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.

More from Charles Caleb Colton

  1. Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by other men.
  2. Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
  3. 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.
  4. Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period or other when they have time. But the present time…
  5. 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 …
  6. Most men know what they hate, few know what they love.
  7. Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
  8. Most of our misfortune are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them.

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