Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces and which most men throw away.
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces and which most men throw away.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
Men are born with two eyes but with one tongue in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Men are born with two eyes but with one tongue in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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.
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.
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner.
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.
If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you fill her above the brim with love of herself all that runs over will be yours.
Knowledge is two-fold and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true but in the negation of that which is false.
Knowledge is two-fold and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true but in the negation of that which is false.
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues as disease is far more contagious than health.
No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues as disease is far more contagious than health.
Happiness that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life impels us through all its mazes and meanderings but leads none of us by the same route.
Happiness that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life impels us through all its mazes and meanderings but leads none of us by the same route.
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.