Quotes by Colton, Charles Caleb

There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence. >>

Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost. >>

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength >>

Quotations about Compliments

After [my father had] seen me in five or six things, he said, >>

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the d >>

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one. >>

When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.

Colton, Charles Caleb